Bookish tags
Over at the 800CEOREAD blog, Todd is pitching the idea of using a single technorati tag to identify posts with business book references, reviews, etc. His idea is to use the businessbooks tag when writing about, well, business books.
It’s a good idea, provided it spreads around a bit. But that can happen fast once a few folks start picking it up. The alternative is probably a combination of the generic "books" tag and the equally generic "business" tag. I suspect that a lot of books would get missed since folks would be likely to forget one or the other. Not to mention posts getting buried in the "books" tag.
Anyway, I think there is some unspoken rule against everyone agreeing on a tag. It’s not very anarchic. But it is effective and, despite my affection for anarchy, I’m in…
Quick clarification: I believe that the suggestion from 800-CEO-READ was to add the “businessbooks” tag to del.icio.us, not technorati. I’ve actually done the same thing to the tag “appliedthinking” which is defined here: http://appliedthinking.typepad.com/appliedthinking/2005/03/delicious_defin.html
I love both del.icio.us and the tagging idea…these are powerful ways to sift through all of the data out there.