I’m still a big fan of owning your own words, one of the oldest ideas in electronic forums. So I’m not sure why lowering the final friction point in tagging — that of identity — is truly an advance. I agee that volume is necessary to help the more useful properties of tags emerge, but standalone tagging just puts in one tradeoff for another. Sure to swell the data sets available, and maybe size alone will make tags more broadly interesting. I think Scott Rafer has been paying more attention than I have, so I’m willing to be proven wrong. After all, it’s more interesting when first instincts are wrong, whatever Malcolm Gladwell “blinks.” [Via Tagsonomy, via Many 2 Many]