Replied to What Happened to Tagging? by Aaron DavisAaron Davis

Alexander Samuel reflects on tagging and its origins as a backbone to the social web. Along with RSS, tags allowed users to connect and collate content using such tools as feed readers. This all changed with the advent of social media and the algorithmically curated news feed. Samuel wonders if we h…

Hi Arron, thanks for this link (and many others). I remember when I first got involved in educational blogging it was fairly simple to pull together tags from any blog (via technorati ), twitter and flickr and display them on one page. I made a few for different educational events in Scotland. A marvellous opportunity now lost, hopefully to return.

Politics #blogvember 30

A day late for the last day of blogvember.

Interesting thread.

Religion – #blogvember
I lost this about 46 years or so ago. I do count myself lucky to have gone to Sunday school and church as a child. Familiarity with some of the ideas and perhaps more importantly the language has been valuable in many likely and unlikely places.