Tara pointed me to a great post on the power of tagging and the creation of grassroots, semantic content creation on Connecting*the*dots. A couple excerpts:

So what's the connection between geo-political events and blogging and the tactical fervor of Web 2.0? (social bookmarking, tagging, open source, open content, etc.) In a nutshell: everything.

He calls tagging:

a tactical [strategy] in the battle of the information age. ... The effort, I believe, is based on the desire of individual voices to be heard amidst the shelling of the mainstream media.

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The legitimization of the individual (creative and political) perspective is being sustained in the 21st century by the conviction of the blogosphere, ...The concept of social dialog and the elemental foundation of Capitalism are beginning to shift in exciting ways.


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Blogs are beginning to bridge the social and communication gaps between nations. My peers are thinking differently when developing this medium, even in traditional business development circumstances. The tactical approach to producing, managing, sharing, finding and using information objects — defined from the bottom up — is finally getting it's due.

connecting*the*dots: Tag! We're It! Part II

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