Tag Gardeners and Me - The Weeder

I think it was James Governor who coined the phrase tag gardening here.  I always liked that phrase, and thought it well represented the concept of people who bookmark and tag with care.  So as one of the team operating a social bookmarking site (albeit fledgling), I always wondered what that made me.

Initially I thought the answer was something like manual laborer, or perhaps landowner if you considered my responsibility for this piece of cyberspace.  But now I have the definitive answer: I am the weeder.

I won't go on about link spammers here, but I think we all agree on their place in the food chain.   One of the unfortunate  jobs here at TekTag is weeding out the link spam from the good links.  Just like in the real world, sometimes we pull out good stems by mistake; sometimes we miss patches; but overall our tedious labor works.

And I wonder, with social bookmarks and RSS feeds becoming as mainstream as e-mail in a few years, who will be the Brightmail or IronPort to come to our rescue?

Sigh,

TJ