Comments on: issues of culture in ethnoclassification/folksonomy

By: >> mind the __ GAP* ?

>> mind the __ GAP* ? — Sat, 14 May 2005 15:22:34 +0000

summer mood of mobtagging

mediamatic plans a workshop on the technic and impact of mobtagging under the subtitle ‘Collective Intelligence through the exchange of Metadata’ Mobtagging is called “a revolution in the use of the web.” The expectations are high: it makes inform…

By: DavidSturtz.com

DavidSturtz.com — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:00:04 +0000

Art imitates tags

There seems to have been an explosion of folksonomy-related discussion, including Peter Merholz on the art/life (chicken/egg ?) aspect of tags: These tags are no longer simply keywords that describe…

By: geeked.

geeked. — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:45:30 +0000

Folksonomy : link :: hierarchy : barrier

I’ve been drilling down through the plentiful discussions on folksonomy, tagging, and controlled vocabularies – oh my! Suffice it to say – there’s a lot going on.
I had drafted a bunch of thoughts on this, none of them complete or eminently grokka…

By: Joi Ito

Joi Ito — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:16:51 +0000

What’s additionally interesting to me is the second order information that is created by the tags. Forgetting for a second the words themselves, but taking a look at what any particular individual tags with a particular tag and grouping those things together, you get clusters of stuff. Then you look at what clusters of stuff those things are in for everyone else. It’s like a multi-dimensional collaborative filter. So instead of focusing on the fact that MLK means a different thing for different people, why don’t we just assume it. So if you find someone tagging all of their MLK photos and links with a particular tag… then you find someone with the same pattern in Japan, you can figure out that they are both 1) interested in the same thing, 2) are using synonyms, 3) might be interested in things that the other is tagging with the same tag. I’m not sure we want to build some mega-ontology, but rather figure out what this means for organizing information on the Net.

Not fully fleshed out, but just a thought.

By: Paolo Massa Blog

Paolo Massa Blog — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 05:18:38 +0000

What is “Tag Spam”? Or better, Tag Spam exists?

Leigh asks So any signs that “tag spam” has started yet? (found because he uses “trust metrics” a keyword to which I’m subscribed in a number of service). Here I ask the same question. It seems very unlikely that web…

By: Many-to-Many

Many-to-Many — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:38:14 +0000

issues of culture in ethnoclassification/folksonomy

I love the conversations that have emerged recently on folksonomy/ethnoclassification/tagging/ontology (see del.icio.us tag folksonomy for a good collection of them). Of course, i’m particularly a fan of skeptical posts that raise the social cons…

By: Many-to-Many

Many-to-Many — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:33:08 +0000

issues of culture in ethnoclassification/folksonomy