Archive: tagging

I tried to bugger off yesterday, but you won’t leave me alone. For I’ve been tagged!

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they are any good, but they must be songs you are really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they are listening to.

Okay then.

  • Diplo — Into the Sun — I got this album at Christmas, and this track, along with another one called ‘Sarah’, hit me immediately as one of the best things I had ever heard, which doesn’t happen often these days
  • Jackson and His Computer Band (feat. Mike Ladd) — TV Dogs (Cathodica’s Letter) — from one of my very favourite albums of last year; I still listen to it several times a week. Cool, groovy, dense, and chopped up a la Prefuse 73
  • Hot Chip — Beach Party — I saw their new one on E4 Music today and really wanted to hear this stylish song again
  • Gelg — some of the music used on ‘Look Around You’ is really cool. The Boards of Canada influence comes across really strongly
  • Why? — Act Five — don’t really know why I like this one so much
  • The Fiery Furnaces — Seven Silver Curses — I greatly admire this band. I think they are the closest comparison to Radiohead you can come up with, in the sense that they could easily have been safe indie darlings for their whole career. But they refused to, instead alienating the pants-wetting guitar-shaggers and going all electric, eclectic and generally weird
  • The New Pornographers — These are the Fables — and to round it off, some pants-wetting guitar music

Who do I tag? Whoever wants it.

Us bloggers, eh?

Why Do Taggers Tag?

  • Recognition
  • Low self-esteem
  • Peer recognition
  • For recognition; a distorted view of “fame”
  • See it in the community and want to try it too

Hilariously, this list applies equally to graffiti.

1/3 of all blog posts use tags already!

Tagging is great, but it has its problems for sure. One is the old plural versus singular dillema. I don’t have any set rules for which I use, which is a problem.

The second is double meaning. ‘Jaguar‘ and ‘Bush‘ are two that I’ve read about today.

Flickr — oh, they are so great — have come up with an ingenius solution — clustering. So now you can see that Jaguar is separated between a cluster about cars and a cluster about zoos (but not animals?). And Bush is separated into clusters for the president, for nature, for trees and for… graffiti. Okay, so it’s not perfect, but it’s a real improvement.

Now to sort out the singular / plural thing!

As you might have noticed, I’ve been tinkering again. So I’m just posting my usual warning, and if you experience any problems (or simply if you have any feedback) please do tell me!

Categories changed as promised. For instance, ‘LOL_MATE!!!!’ has changed into the rather more prim-and-proper ‘Humour’. I also have new categories like ‘Scotland’. I have also got rid of the hierarchical structure, because I thinkthe relationships between categories are intertwining rather than hierarchical. It’s amazing how Technorati tags have changed my attitude to categories…

Update: The blogroll’s also been given a shakeup.