Personally I don't find tagging that...innovative. Tagging is sort of every day. Take our library catalogs for example. They use tagging in their own way to create connects between books by the same author, and books with a similar subject.
Allowing users to tagg their own whatever it is your tagging is all well and good except that every little difference (like misspelling or capitalization) can create a new tag categories. So if one person types tomato and another person types Tomato than there is a disconnect. So in this way, user tagging is much less effective than when their is a set category list that is used to tag an item.
On the other hand, tagging does provide a much wider range of possibilities for users.
It is useful for entertainment purposes, or following one kind of news post, but over all, besides all our mucking about the Internet it don't seem like a powerful tool in the same way RSS feeds are.
-M
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Meg:
I didn't "get" the tagging thing. Your explanation helped. I haven't figured out yet why this would be useful to me.
dmj
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