toDo tags are (or will be) tags that mark an item toDo.
so what? you might ask. lots of things mark other things ‘toDo’
well. first off, this toDo tag is a highly evolved wikiWord. sure there are WikiWords, but all those have to *begin* with a capital letter. and poetdogs do not capitalize, hardly ever.
what roguish nature! what petulant perniciousness! you might say.
and i would say, riddle me this: click by click, a capital letter takes one extra, and a concurrent click at that (one must hold shift, and click letter). capital letters are distracting, both to writer and reader. they glom up our mojo and i recommend we give them up entirely.
so. although i am blissfully unaware of what alchemy brings about the happening of the WikiWord, it seems a word could almost as easily be recognized by a mid-capital as a front-capital.
and why, poetdog, do you continually barrage the ’spheres with plaintive pleas for easy wikiWords?
i guess that is a question for the psychIatrists. in simple, i find it intriguing. a word creates a link to a tiddler, or perhaps a tag (and as we all know, there is, as of yet, no such word that could accurately describe the oomphilicious ramificologications of tags). plus i wrote all my wikiWords this past year in the evolved format (because it is easier) and i was hoping a wikiWord harvester would one day come along and make them all into tiddlers. hey – a girl can dream, can’t she?
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but enough about wikiWords. the really important thing is tags. at first, i tagged out of duty. i felt i should add a reference, a summary, a redescription of the contents of the entry (the entry itself is the first description). so i tagged, and dutifully.
and then, as poetdogs are so often wont to do, i quickly got bored. although we never get bored ot tagging ‘tag’ (here at Poetdog Informational Corporotronics, LLC, patently pending), we do get bored with writing things like, ‘cats, pet food, dogs’.
and what is fun, and funny, is how the realm of tags is relatively uncharted. and how wordpress is comma, delineated, so phrases are easily created, through intention or mere serendipity. and of course, the tendency of certain search engines to find relevance between the title and the tag of an entry is also amusing.
however. the role of tags has yet to be determined, and decided, and enacted, and reworked, and hailed, and cursed, and marveled upon.
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a quick list of the current (?) role of tags:
1. basic referential information. link to original source, to other sources in existence, and to future sources.
2. name and type of document. see tiddlyspot tiddlers tagged ‘blog’ (one is at benjam.tiddlyspot.com). blog-tagged tiddlers become journal entries, and the tag itself is a tiddler which is tagged to, and inherently references the entries (which to me human eyeballs reads as a list).
3. other roles unknown, to be determined, see above. but here are some quick ideas, based on the toDo tag:
toDo: inventCornBreadFrenchToast
the toDo: tag is the ‘anchor’ tiddler, if you will, and somehow will also invoke a verbNoun referencing of list items. so there will be a list that says, ‘invent…’ and an invent tiddler i can open when i feel i need to invent something and want to be reminded of all the things i intended to invent. like CornBreadFrenchToast.
toDo: verbNoun
toDo: changeWebsite
washDog
well, i probably would not have a list of things to wash, although i might. more likely i would have a list of Dog things. which would mean a handy popup toggle list would handily popup and toggle with either a list of things to wash, or things to do to the dog.
the toDo: tag is, at this point, purely conceptual in nature, and i toss it out to the ’spheres only as an indication of the potential utility of tags. no rights reserved.
for myself, as soon as i mark something toDo, i never do it. i am stubborn that way.
a further note, and perhaps #4 in the role of tags: once something is tagged, the tag itself becomes a tool for reference, and a tool for wanderings. for instance, i am tagging this with the toDo tag, and the CornBreadFrenchToast tag. what are my intentions (and truly it is all about intentions)?
a.) my tagish intentions for tagging ‘tag’: well, once again, we here at Poetdog Informatrical Corpilogix never get bored with tagging ‘tag’. it is a joyful experience. you should try it.
b.) my tagish intentions for tagging ‘toDo’ : much like this entry, an offerance for the ’spheres, for like-minded peoples, for the general sparkings of human thought and invention, and for the teasing beautifulness found in the heretofore yet-unknown serendipitous loopings of cybertronic chance.
c.) my tagish intentions for tagging ‘CornBreadFrenchToast’: this one is purely self-serving. if i tag CornBreadFrenchToast, and others click it, they might not find the actual item, but will think about CornBreadFrenchToast, and one day maybe someone will invent it for me! one day in the near future, i shall click on this tag (which surely by then has ceased to be ‘mine’), and find not only the expected oodles of quick and easy recipes for CornBreadFrenchToast, but a number of restaurants serving CornBreadFrenchToast, a smattering of articles by and for feuding foodie faddists, and perhaps a place i could order some CornBreadFrenchToast online to be delivered to my very home between the hours of 8-5 by the adorable fedex guy.
****a quick sidenote on the nature of the ‘CornBreadFrenchToast’ wikiWord. it was written originally with mindful intention that perhaps one day i would want to separate CornBread from FrenchToast. i mean, perhaps there will be another kind of FrenchToast i will want someone else to invent. or some thing else with CornBread. on sais jamais, n’est-ce pas?
