# It's Time We Talked About Tags

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**Created:** [October 20, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/72467 "2017-10-20T12:48:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/72467/10 "2020-03-26T22:54:31Z")

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@awesomerobot reminded me of this absolute classic Clay Shirky post on the topic of tagging versus categories

> **[Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags](https://web.archive.org/web/20180224153834/http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html)**
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> Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source

If you haven’t read this, and have any interest in the topic whatsoever .. please read it now. 🙇‍♂️

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