Please join us in adding labels (tags, categories) to your entries in this blog. There’s a space for labels at the bottom of your “new entry” page. You can make up your own, but the more we use shared labels, the easier it will be to search the gallery for the type(s) of creations we’re most interested in. We offer the labels below for your reference:
- REALITY STATE – non-fiction, fiction, imagineering*, magical realism**
- TIME – past, present time, future, other time***, timeless****
- MEDIUM – text, graphic, video, audio
- LITERATURE – novel, poetry/lyrics, short story, creative non-fiction, drama, humor, prose poem, myth, literature
- VISUAL ART – painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic, electronic art, other visual art
- VIDEO/PERFORMANCE – dance, performance, presentation, animation/flash, videographic poem, movie
- AUDIO – music, spoken word, nature sounds
- NONFICTION – commentary, reflection, instructional essay, human interest, journalism, developments/trends, review
- ANNOUNCEMENTS – announcement, classified ad, educational opportunity, award/contest, resource(s), proposal, reference/biblio/link(s), organization, activity
- INTERACTIVE – ritual, prayer, game, virtual reality, interactive
Blogger doesn’t let us post more than 200 characters in the Label field, so it may take several postings for us to get all these listed in the “labels” column in the right-hand margin….
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* imagineering – writing about the future as if it has already happened in a way that empowers and/or invites people to live into that future; fiction that ultimately intends to be non-fiction
** magical realism – seemingly realistic seamlessly mixed with magical elements
*** other time – fictional or other-dimensional worlds with their own time
**** timeless – talking about something eternal or simply without reference to its past, present, and future
June 1, 2007 at 5:34 pm |
I am disappointed, Tom, that you have started out trying to control the direction this blog might take in advance. . . gee, it mighta been nice if you had allowed participants to co-create the tag list. . . . over here in my world, I believe the metastory of the human future will involve lots of openness and co-creation and all voices will be able to, well, voice themselves. . .
June 1, 2007 at 5:35 pm |
At the top of the blog, Tom, you have a lovely statement of intention. I love that box, the one that says ‘a co-created gallery’. . . . . and then you have retained control. . . . weird to me
June 1, 2007 at 6:52 pm |
Thanks for your comments, Tree. I have responded to your feeling of being controlled at http://storyfieldconversations.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/hello-from-the-new-registrar/#comment-12
Regarding the tags: Participants WILL be able to create their own tags (although only for the actual postings; unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t allow tagging of comments). Refer to the above URL for info about how the system recognizes Participants.
There is such a thing as a taxonomy, which is a pre-formed group of categories, and then there is a folksonomy, which is a group of categories created on the fly by all the participants. Our approach is a mix of these two. We wanted to invite people to use some standard categories (which creates a common ground — since people may make tags like “drawing” and “drawings” which then don’t help select all the entries having to do with drawings) AND we wanted people to be able to tag their entries in any way they want. As soon as someone creates a new tag it is added to the tag list. I hope this clarifies.