Week 6 #13

I'm not sure about this "delicious" thing. I can see that for an individual to make their own tag for their own use, it makes sense; but the problem comes with "tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want" - we at HCPL have already experienced this "free form" type of thing when anyone was allowed to put items into the catalog and it became a nightmare. I don't know about the rest of the world, but Americans do not seem to do well with "unstructured." In fact, the beginning problems are talked about (changing cooking, cook, cooks to one word: cook) but the implications are ignored. I think the internet has already proven to us that more information needs stricter guidelines, not looser.