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I want an online TV guide with tagging.

Sites like Yahoo TV Guide (I refuse to add the exclamation mark) are okay, but don’t tell you much about a programme, except the few sentences the production company supplies.

What if anyone could add tags to a programme? So after I watched a programme containing, say, footage of September 11th I could tag it “wtc”. Or a programme that mentioned the Rugby World Cup could be tagged “wilkinson”.

Then anyone could search for the tags and see a list of all the programmes in the last week that mentioned the WTC attacks, or Jonny Wilkinson. Or both.

This would really come into its own when the BBC Creative Archive comes online. You could subscribe to an Atom feed for your chosen tags, and automatically download programmes that match them.

How cool would that be?

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