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 thought collective.

I’ve been active in the user experience, information architecture, and internet technology communities for ten years, before the emergence of tagging as it’s now known, in the era when metadata of any sort was never mentioned in Business Week or the New York Times. Ironically, this history also places me nearer the ‘new’ end of the professional spectrum amongst the posters here at You’re It! It is a group I am privileged to join.

When not thinking about tagging, tagclouds, folksonomies, and social metadata, I enjoy crafting essays about enterprise information architecture, user experience, the design and structure of complex systems, mental models, organizational culture, and the like at joelamantia.com.