Tag spamming

One of the cruel realities about the internet is that every new innovation will be accompanied by an equally creative annoyance.

I’ve posted before on how I think that tags are generating a new kind of “channel,” where programming and  content is essentially decided by the users who tag things. Tagging is now the basis of Yahoo!‘s new My Web service, and is even going to be part of the file-system in Windows Vista.

In short, tags are up and coming in a big way.

How long until we get tag spam? And how will we be able to deal with it?

We should be thinking about this now, because as soon as tags really become mainstream, plugging a del.icio.us feed into my feedreader will probably get me more pages for pen1s enlargement than it will for the subject I was interested in.