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What are your top twenty tags? Do they accurately represent your life?

The regularly used ones are life, meme, invitation, wittering, gakked, whine, review, introspection, rant and work. These will overtake the one-offs as I lj for longer.

What do you use? Is meta different to lj[1]? Should wittering be 'thoughts', 'witterings', 'random', 'stream-of-consciousness' or what?

[1] OK, *here* it is, but will I ever use it again?

Life26Writing about things I've done. A good tag to be top, though I'd hoped I'd have more essays. OTOH, there's often overlap; I write about what I've done.
film14Hmmm. Not a good 2nd. But every film gets two -- an invitation and a review. And being shorter than a book are easier to see, then review.
one-liner13Tin says. It does.
meme11Inevitable.
invitation11Wow.
witterings11This is for 'what I happen to be thinking'. Some are fairly deep, some are 'Hey, wow, ducks!'
gakked11Links or copied content. Related to meme, but with no personal content.
whine9When I'm being all 14-year-old-girl.
review9I do a fair number of these.
tech8Computer-related stuff of varying depth, including some from work.
firefly8It's cool, it deserves the top 20. Also, each watching has a few reschedules, plus the film having three reviews with different levels of spoilers.
introspection8Thinking about who I am. I do this a lot.
bike5Soon it will all be fixed and I'll have nothing to say.
worldcon5This happened about the time I started with tags and tagged everything that week.
work5Things from work, both about work itself, and colleages, and quotes, and random stuff.
belated4When I write something up later.
serenity4WOOOOOOOOOOO!
rant3Rants are not whines. Rants are intended to be amusing over-the-top characatures of yelling at NTL, etc. See Best page in the universe, Dave Barry, Bill Brighton, or someone.
lj3Is lj different to meta?
books3I need more of these. Soon I will review all my twentyish favorite books one at a time.

Date: 2005-09-22 05:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
True. I guess if someone were searching all lj for 'geek' I would want them to find mine. But since nearly *all* of my posts are geeky (in the footnotes if nothing else), I could just go and tag them all later... :)

what you want there is searching among subjects

Yeah... But what if your post deals with several specific subjects in such a way it's hard to put them in the title? To take an extreme example, if you had a post titled "Films that are foo", someone searching might want to find that post if they searched for the films, if not so much as they'd want to find a post about that film only.