http://tagsonomy.com a blog on tagging Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:12:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In his comments on Is Tagging A Disruptive Innovation, Simon Edhouse raises a good point that merits some further discussion. Simon says, "Many different technologies, platforms or applications may be ‘potential’ disruptions, but may fall by the wayside, change, or join forces with other forces and be transformed and possibly ... http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/tagging-a-comparison-with-three-characteristics-of-disruptive-innovations/ Before I reply to comments from KatB & Simon Edhouse on The Tagging Growth Curve, a quick reminder that this series of postings has as it's primary point of departure the idea that the smoothly drawn analyst's curve for describing technology growth misrepresents the noisy and unpredictable fluctuations of reality. ... http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/a-response-to-comments-on-the-tagging-growth-curve/ 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 ... http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/the-tagging-growth-curve/ Regarding my post Tagging and the Hype Cycle, Xian said: ...You write: “Tagging does not seek to displace existing technologies or entrenched vendors” but are there not automated taxonomy generating tools that might be disrupted by the widespread adoption of tagging? More broadly, isn’t tagging something of a threat to top-down ontology ... http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/is-tagging-a-disruptive-innovation/ In Tag history and gartners hype cycles, Philipp Keller, riffing on Gartner's 'Hype Cycles', has put together a brief history capturing his view of the major developments in tagging, and mapped this chronological listing of events to the five stages of the common Gartner Technology Hype Cycle. In support of this ... http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/the-tagging-hype-cycle/ Hello, world! Joe Lamantia here, as the most recent addition to the Tag Team, with greetings and salutations for one and all. Readers of and contributors to this blog may know some of my writing on tagging and tag clouds, which is what brings me to this semi-structured ... http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/introduction-joe-lamantia/ The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just released a report on Tagging with some very interesting statistics ("28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or ... http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/pew-internet-and-american-life-new-report-on-tagging/ Will Parker on the sigia-l mailing list sent around a link to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: Keynote text analysis from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which compares tag clouds generated from recent keynote speeches from Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/comparing-jobs-and-gates-tag-clouds/ 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 ... http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/do-you-have-a-tagging-case-study/ Hmm, I meant to blog this over a month ago. Jason Toal posted some results of a tagging study I participated in. Apparently SurveyMonkey is a security risk, so he can't include his results in his academic work. Still, the results provide an interesting snapshot of one small group of ... http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/jason-toals-survey-results/