Comments on: Tim Bray Asks The Right Question (And I Try To Answer It)

By: Kitten War and other random bits … :: tiffany b. brown // v 4.1

Kitten War and other random bits … :: tiffany b. brown // v 4.1 — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:32:18 +0000

[...] all kinds of thoughts on the subject, such as Clay Shirky’s post on situations where tags are better than search. Related topics: Inte [...]

By: You’re It! » Blog Archive » Dynamic Growth of Tag Clouds

You’re It! » Blog Archive » Dynamic Growth of Tag Clouds — Tue, 24 May 2005 20:04:10 +0000

[...] on (or even mentioned) the particular efforts in either of those fields. This is another answer to Tim Bray’s question: Taggers are good a [...]

By: browlands

browlands — Mon, 09 May 2005 16:33:35 +0000

The first part of your answer to Tim Bray’s questions (i.e. “tags keep found things found…”) was very intriguing because what you’re describing are basically bookmarks. Could tags be a replacement for bookmarks?

By: szlea

szlea — Thu, 05 May 2005 17:18:35 +0000

How about online recipe databases? Put a tag on each ingredient in the recipe. I find tags for the ingredients I have at home right now – I find all the recipes I could make for dinner tonight.

Some sites now offer checkboxes in a search site for main staples, but nothing as accurate as tags could provide!

By: Bokardo » Tagsonomy.com: A New Site on Tagging

Bokardo » Tagsonomy.com: A New Site on Tagging — Tue, 03 May 2005 14:02:54 +0000

[...] real post (other than introductions from blog members that were insightful in themselves), Clay addresses a question brought up by Tim Bray. The s [...]

By: Peer Pressure

Peer Pressure — Tue, 03 May 2005 09:44:06 +0000

Tag Me Up, Tag Me Down

Clay Shirky with a characteristically insightful article, responding to Tim Bray’s question “do we need tags?” on the new You’re It! blog (devoted entirely to tagging). Definitely worth the read. I particularly liked Clay’s point about adding “p…

By: Joshua Porter

Joshua Porter — Tue, 03 May 2005 02:58:18 +0000

After Peter Morville tried to compare Flickr to Google at the IASummit a month ago, I wrote this: Why We Can't Compare Folksonomies to Search. In a nutshell, my argument is that Tagging is personal, and Search is not. Tagging is, as Timo suggested in his intro, a crude formulation of the relationship of content and Us. There is no equivalent in Search, and a comparison isn't really helpful. To answer Tim: the job I want to do is to make systems that better represent our own changing human mind. I think the personal quality of Tagging is getting toward that in a better way than Search is.

By: Radio Free Blogistan

Radio Free Blogistan — Mon, 02 May 2005 23:32:34 +0000

Is trackback dead, are comments on life support?

Quoting from Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too? (plasticbag.org) I think it’s time we faced the fact that Trackback is dead. We should state up front – the aspirations behind Trackback were admirable. We should reassert that we understand that …