the Cohost tagging discourse gets me to thinking about an old brainfart, the idea of having a tagging system that was at least partly fixed: I'd thought that perhaps one could bring the tools of library science to bear, and come up with a reasonably comprehensive list of standard subject headings for social media that covered all expected human endeavours. but any such "standard" list is bound to be incomplete and imbalanced, not to mention inflexible. new topics can become current almost overnight.
d'you suppose there's any merit to the idea of a set of standard tags? ~Chara
