Did you notice the tagging feature on Technorati? Or Flickr? What about the labels feature on blogger?
Tagging is a feature that many web applications now support, allowing you to assign keywords for easy retrieval later. For example, this picture on my flickr site is tagged with "library", "pirate night", and "ya program". This way, if anyone came to flickr looking for pictures of YA programs, this picture from pirate night would show up as a search result. The default search on flickr searches the tags, photo descriptions, and photo titles.
On the Popular tags page, (which can be found by clicking on the triangle on the "explore" tab and then going to "popular tags") you can see the most popular tags used on flickr in the past 24 hours, the past week, or of all time. The most popular tags of all time are listed by alphabetical order, but the bigger a word appears, the more often it has been used to tag photos.
While my example has been from Flickr, several of the sites we have used recently have had a tagging feature. I use the tagging feature on this blog, to make it easy to find each challenge. On the right hand side of the blog, under the heading "labels", you can click on any of the tags there to see the posts that pertain to that particular tag. Clicking on "task1" for example, will take you to the entry that contains the challenge for task 1, which will be helpful when you're trying to find one particular task out of the 23 that have been posted.
Your challenge? Tag something. Tag your photos, your blog posts, anything that allows tagging. (There will be more places that allow this later on.) Along with your own tags, tag something you've done for this program as "ncpltech20". Then go here, and see what everyone else has tagged for the program on flickr.
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