Posts authored by Peter Martin:


Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Tags are magic! - Part 4
Martin Belam, Peter Martin

In the last of a series of posts based on a presentation given at last year's Online Information conference in London, the Guardian's tag manager Peter Martin and information architect Martin Belam look at how our tags are used to link to the external world, improve search and navigation, and to place components on our pages

Tags are magic  

"Your tag sucks" in graffiti

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Tags are magic! - Part 3
Martin Belam, Peter Martin

In part three of this series of posts based on a presentation given at last year's Online Information conference in London, the Guardian's tag manager Peter Martin and information architect Martin Belam look at how we keep our tags useful for the audience, and in line with house style

Internet   Tags are magic  

A tag lying across a MacBook keyboard

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Tags are magic! - Part 2
Martin Belam, Peter Martin

In part two of this series of posts based on a presentation given at last year's Online Information conference in London, the Guardian's tag manager Peter Martin and information architect Martin Belam look at the use of folders to build a taxonomy from the tags applied to content

Tags are magic  

A bunch of name tags from a Barcamp conference

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Tags are magic! - Part 1
Martin Belam, Peter Martin

Last year at the Online Information conference in London, the Guardian's tag manager Peter Martin and information architect Martin Belam gave a presentation called Mapping the Guardian's Tags to the Web of Data. In a series of posts for the Developer Blog, they outline why Tags Are Magic

Tags are magic  

A card tag