Puzzlepieces – November, 2005

some definitions of ‘tag’

tag (noun)

A string (text) that is associated with something else (eg a book, web page, even another ‘tags’). The specifics depend on the implemenation, but a ‘tag’ usually may not contain spaces, and often may only contain [A-za-z] or even [a-z], but sometimes it can contain anything, such as quotation marks or non-ASCII unicode characters. When referring to a ‘tag,’ one is usually referring to a specific string, but sometimes one is actually referring to a set of normalized ‘tags’; i.e. with plural words stemmed.

An XML or HTML ‘tag’… these are the basic building blocks of XML

tag (verb)

To apply a ‘tags’ (see first noun definition) or multiple tags to something

To apply any type of metadata (such as ‘tags’ see first noun defintion) to something… this may or may not be done using ‘tags’ in the XML sense.

does this clarify the situation? gotta love the last defition

Update December 5: Tag formats: Can�t we all just get along?

I was thinking of a really long rant, but instead I’ll make a short comment.

Google Base leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth, in more ways than one. You?

If you want to enact positive change, work with the millions of Americans that disagree with their government. Same goes for other countries.

Bombing a tourist spot in the middle east only kills innocent citizens of that country and of others, some/all of which may be on your side. And it kills the tourism industry, which is a major contributor to the economies of some middle eastern countries, and provides that salaries that many poor people depend on.