A recent flurry of postings from the tagerati on the state of tagging follows up on the idea broached by Phillip Kelleher, and then addressed here in previous posts; to wit, tagging is in a bit of a lull, if not an authentic spate of the doldrums.
A quick listing of postings from the thread:
Phillip Keller: [...]
I’m looking for a couple of good tagging case studies for a project I’m working on. Enterprise or corporate tagging applications would be particularly good, but consumer web apps or even desktop tagging examples are welcome too.
These case studies may be published so it would be great if you…
Could provide screen captures of your [...]
Our own Don Turnbull posted from the Collaborative Tagging Workshop at WWW2006 in Edinburg, mentioned in Christian’s last post. Don includes a link to a rich set of 16 papers on collaborative tagging. Fire up your Adobe Readers! (Posted by Jon L. as Admin)
Nearly ten months ago, at the suggestion of Andy Baio I interviewed Gordon Luk (via IM) about FreeTag, an “Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications” he originally created for Upcoming and announced almost a year ago in his blog.
In the meantime I’ve continually intended to edit the chat transcript into a coherent [...]
Here are my raw notes from Rashmi Sinha’s talk at the IA Summit, “Sorting, Tagging and Social Information Architecture or The Missing Chapter in the Polar Bear Book “:
Who’s sick of hearing about tagging?
[Tagging provides a] focus on the individual….
Have you ever heard of “The man who could not sort”? The discussion of the Chandler [...]
Back in my first post to this blog, I said that over here at Nature we’re interested in the question of "…how far tagging can take us in tackling the (formidable) information organisation needs of modern science." Today we’re starting on a cool (I think) new experiment that might help provide some early answers.
Many [...]
Panelists:
Don Turnbull of U of T, Austin (and a contributor to this blog)
Thomas Vander Wal of PersonalInfoCloud
Prentiss Riddle of Shadows.com
Adina Levin of SocialText (which, as she put it, had tags from when they were called categories)
Rashmi Sinha of Uzanto
I’m going to try to group the comments into subject areas. Let’s see how well that works.
Tags [...]
I posted my notes on the Beyond Folksonomies at SXSW at my “The Power of Many” blog.
Update: Scot Hacker took notes on this panel too.
Technorati tags: sxsw2006, sxsw (in case Technorati’s not picking up our native tags)
Tim O’Reilly posts on the O’Reilly radar that Jakob Nielsen’s concern about search engines “strikes a chord.”
It’s easy to see why folks with paid content businesses would be concerned about giving away too much information via search engines, but it’s really interesting to see the same concerns springing up around free content sites. Google and [...]
Jakob Nielsen complains that search engines “are sucking out too much of the Web’s value, acting as leeches on companies that create the very source materials the search engines index.” He’s worried that search engines “build their business on other websites’ content,” and that “paid search confiscates too much of a website’s value.”
Reading between [...]