Tag you’re it.

I meant to mention this in the previous post to help with the viewing of pics of my new car. Something I’ve been working on; instead of having to manually search through my pictures to find what you’re looking for, you can just go to the pictures section and select the tag for whatever item you attempting to find. Tagging is a new system that has sprung up that allows for easy organization and searching of media files and text associated with a category. For example, if I had a picture of my new car I’d tag it with such phrases as car, Camry, Toyota and maybe new, cool and 2007. This would allow me in the future to go back and search for all pictures tagged with Camry, and pull up any Camry pics.

The reason I mention this is because I’ve embarked on tagging all my Flickr photos with appropriate tags. Mainly, the people who appear in the pictures. This will allow you to search for pictures with a specific person or persons in them. For example, if you wanted to find pics of Newbs, you can click or search on the tag for “Newbs”. If you wanted to find pics of Mike & Julie you could search for “Mike&Julie“. The whole project is in progress, and I’d estimate I’m about 60% through tagging all my pictures. Often times I come up with new tags to specify what’s going on in the picture or where it was taken, but sometimes tags are limited to 1 or 2 items. I’m not sure which you’ll find easier, tag browsing via flickr or via my photo section, but take your pick. If you have any tag suggestions that’d make browsing or finding photos easier, by all means let me know.