I get asked a lot about things that I read online, or that I find interesting. I have hinted to my del.icio.us feed several times – subscribe to it, if you wanna know what inspired me and/or is important enough to me to be bookmarked.

I am totally into tagging now. I find it fascinating that we do share a common language and associations enough to make collective sense of information, just by tagging it with certain terms. There is of course a cultural aspect to it: I think that after living in a quite laid back English-speaking country for over 4 years and thinking and expressing myself in English almost all of the time, for both work and play, I am certainly tagging things differently than if I mainly spoke German, Spanish, French, whatever. But I do find things online that are important to me tagged the way I would as well, and that gives me confidence enough to think that if I tag articles with certain terms it might make sense to lots of other people as well…

Anywho. I am tempted to abolish categories on this blog and just stick with tagging articles… what do you think? How do you think and/or work? Do you play tag? Or do you still use categories in one form or another?