Why I don’t like to infer semantics from tags

del.icio.us is a popular referring source to my weblog. I noticed quickly that one of the tags being used was ‘queso‘ for obvious reasons. Silly me to think that since most of the del.icio.us audience is technical in body and mind, the queso tag would have not been used until now. Even sillier me to not think (since I’m mainly a spanish speaker, even at work) that the queso tag would have been used to discuss recipes containing the cheese ingredient. Anyways as you may see, today the queso tag has a new meaning, it means a new breed of application servers: a SWeb 2.0 server. This is a concrete reason for me to not overload tags/tagging with “semantics” and use them mostly in practical scenarios like del.icio.us when mixing a J2EE server and cooking recipes is really not that important to the business.

Entries on delicious with the queso tag before July 17, 2006.

  1. Desserts & Treats

    … on feb 10

  2. Buñuelos de parmesano y cebolla

    … on jan 24

  3. The Queso

    … on jan 16

  4. Chili Con Queso Dip Recipe -

    … on dec 9, 2005

  5. Chestab Indice English

    … on nov 7, 2005

  6. BigCheeseUSA.jpg (imagen JPEG, 3000×4295 píxeles)

    … on nov 7, 2005

  7. Peligros de los productos lacteos

    … on oct 19, 2005

  8. Peligros del Queso sobre la salud

    … on oct 19, 2005

  9. Nacho Mountain Theme Park Official Website

    … on oct 10, 2005

  10. QUESOS ASTURIANOS QUESOS ASTURIAS

    … on sept 26, 2005

Entries on delicious with the queso tag after July 17, 2006.

  1. Elias Torres » Blog Archive » Queso – a Semantic Web/Web 2.0 server

    … 2 hours ago

  2. ~wingerz » Blog Archive » A Queso Example

    … 2 hours ago

  3. Elias Torres » Blog Archive » Queso – a Semantic Web/Web 2.0 server

    … 8 hours ago

  4. ~wingerz » Blog Archive » A Queso Example

    … 8 hours ago

  5. ~wingerz » Blog Archive » A Queso Example

    … 8 hours ago

  6. ~wingerz » Blog Archive » A Queso Example

    … on july 20

  7. Elias Torres » Blog Archive » Queso – a Semantic Web/Web 2.0 server

    … on july 20

  8. Elias Torres » Blog Archive » Queso – a Semantic Web/Web 2.0 server

    … on july 19

  9. Into the Woods » Blog Archive » Posting Atom Entries to Queso from Java(tm)

    … on july 18

  10. Sam Ruby: Queso

    … on july 18
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07.21.06 / 12pm
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