information wants to be tagged

[hitchhiker]

A couple of great articles on how fanfic writers have evolved their own classification and tagging system.

• Fan is a tool-using animal [talk transcript]
  
• Fans are better than tech at organizing information online [wired article]
  

Comments

[minoanmiss]

[insert 500 word rant about why this proves that tags are a good thing despite all the fan creatures who argue against them]

[hitchhiker]

sigh. fans are also really good at arguing about things, unfortunately. tags are awesome.