The New Utovsky Bolshevik Show

So, in my first post about identi.ca I mentioned, right at the end, tags. You may be familiar with tags from other Internet things, and tags on identi.ca are essentially the same: they are used for classifying your dents into categories.

What differentiates tags in identi.ca from tags on, say, your blog, is that they are included right there in the text of your dent, simply by prepending a '#' to a word. So, for example, I posted about Debian earlier, here. I included the text '#debian', which makes it automatically show up on the Debian tag page. You can use any word for a tag, and as soon as you do a tag page is created (or added to).

So what?

So, this means that you suddenly have a different aspect on dents. Now you don't just follow people, you can follow dents from anyone about things you're interested in. And there's no real definition to these things, it's very fluid. So, for example, you might be interested in Obama, a free voice-over-IP solution or even just food.

So now you don't just follow your friends, you can chat to people you don't know about stuff that interests you. That's pretty cool, and not something you can easily get with normal blogging.

Posted: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:33 | Tags: Planet WUGLUG, Planet UWCS, Facebook, Planet Bazaar | Comments: 2