chrisbrogan.com - Latest Comments in Tags Are Your New Website

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

ZuDfunck — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:36:31 -0000

Good stuff...

I tag as a secondary act after posting.

I rarely pursue the tag after that,

But I do allow it in addition to bookmarking and burning feeds.

I want permanent contact, not a fleeting moment.

I am not a whore! I'm a blogger.

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

buns and chou chou — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:00:51 -0000

just starting to feel this. thanks for putting into words.

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

Whitney — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:17:40 -0000

I have this blog I need to host, so the tags are more doable- but in the meantime, I have a post over at Parent's Eye View about how we are all internet electricians, responsbile for hooking up the wires, making the connections, and letting people pull the switches to the stuff they find interesting.
Without the links, tags and the like, the wires don;t connect and the bigger lightbulbs caused by great ideas never get ignited.

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

Jay Moonah from Uncle Seth — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:56:54 -0000

I'm buying it.

Dale -- the point (as I choose to understand it, anyway!) is that the tags are pointers to everything that is being said about you or about whatever topic you are supporting on your site. Of course the tags _themselves_ are not the website, it's everything that is tagged. "Things That are Tagged Are Your New Website" just doesn't look as good on a t-shirt.

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

Dale Cruse — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:32:01 -0000

For once I disagree with you, Chris!

"Tags are your website?" No. That's like saying a card catalog is a book. It's not. It's a means to an end, but not the end.

Tools are tools, but content is still king. Check out Zeldman's latest post for evidence. http://www.zeldman.com/2007...

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

Doug Haslam — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:07:30 -0000

What I didn't say in my first comment-- I think you are definitely on to something, Chris. The "medium is the message" comment by Bob is right in my line of understanding as well: Even blogs aren't so different except that it is a new medium-- it's what you say that counts-- that is also true in my profession, PR--.

(McLuhan taps me on shoulder, says: "You know nothing of my work. How you ever got into the media business at all is totally amazing."
Woody Allen taps me on shoulder, says: "You know nothing of my work, either. To quote my best-known film out of context betrays your crass ignorance.")

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

brokenengine — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:58:25 -0000

I have only recently been adding tags to my blog posts. For one thing, I just didn't know I had the option before. And another, I don't like the fact that they clutter my blog posts. I am going to look into whether they can be hidden on my page but still there to be searchable...

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

Bob LeDrew — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:55:12 -0000

This is a very McLuhanesque thought. Tags are the site; the medium is the message. Will tag clouds become a new form of writing?

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

Jim Kirks — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:17:50 -0000

You are full of something? It, maybe. I think in this instance you are right on.

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

Nick Dynice — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:04:45 -0000

Sounds like Edge Competencies. http://www.bubblegeneration...

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

EllyK — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:43:27 -0000

makes total sense!

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

ChrisDoelle — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:11:13 -0000

You are right on... I love it when a random thought turns out to be brilliant like that. :)

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

Doug Haslam — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:06:23 -0000

As a tiny example of what you say-- boo me if I am misreading-- I use technorati tags on my Gischeleman blog and noticed that most of my traffic comes from technorati tags (webkinz was a recent example).

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

Justin Kownacki — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:05:28 -0000

It depends completely on how much you insist on controlling your brand and how much you enable your users / participants to "be" your brand.

It's getting to the point where your brand is a by-product of the experience of the users; that experience IS the brand, and your USERS ARE the brand.

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

thomasknoll — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:59:31 -0000

where "full of it" = "absolutely correct"

Re: Tags Are Your New Website

thomasknoll — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:58:11 -0000

you're full of it