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 Your sketches look reasonable although again it would be useful to have more detail around the interactions. How does the search work? Is there a type-ahead to help guide people toward tags the system holds (since they didn't choose the tags themselves). What happens for international users who spell words differently (eg UK "colour" vs US "color")? Also, think of unintended behaviour. Is it likely that users would look for ways to get around the fact they can't add their own tags?
+===Eric Reiss===
+You've really nailed half of the problem behind bookmarking: organizing the information. The other half is that bookmarks go out of date - although that is beside the point with respect to this project. You've also understood that even with the best tool, compliance is an issue - most people are too lazy to fill in the metadata needed to organize and re-find the information they've saved.
+Cennydd pegged some of the major problems with tagging. In fact, over the past couple of years, most experts agree that tagging just doesn't work very well in a multi-contributor environment. On a personal blog, where the writer always uses the same words and spell the same way, tagging can be moderately successful. But elsewhere it is often problematical. See Gene Smith's book on tagging for a very good review of the possibilities and problems.
+The details of your proposal are confusing at best. I can see where you're going from the sketches, but not the details. As Mies van der Rohe said, "God is in the details". I need to get a little religion here :)
+This questionnaire is still not fully populated, which is a shame. Perhaps I would have had fewer questions if it had been completed as we mentors had intended...