April 2006
Why Social Bookmark?
I have tried MANY MANY social bookmarks and people have been asking me questions. Most of you already know this, so this is for the very beginners:A simple overview of the basics.
March 2006
wwwtools for teachers:Tags, Folksonomies and Social Bookmarking.
Resource and links about Tags, Folksonomies and Social Bookmarking.
I continue to despise tagging
... makes it popular) Thomas Van Der Wal: Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies Adam Weinroth: Tag Team Michael Wexler: I hate tags , I still hate tagging , I continue to despise tagging Mimi Yen: Hierarchy Versus Facets Versus Tags
User:Dria/On Tagging - wiki.mozilla.org
I was thinking about bookmarks the other night and about how much they suck and about how much I hate them.
Read/WriteWeb: Web 2.0 Definition and Tagging
To investigate what words and phrases people associate with Web 2.0, I took a close look at two popular Web 2.0-ish articles and noted what tags people stored them under in del.icio.us. The first post was Adam Rifkin's fantastic Weblications. It currently has 99 people linking to it on del.icio.us and here is an excel chart showing the top tags:
Folksonomies: Tags Strengths, Weaknesses And How To Make Them Work - Robin Good's Latest News
* Misspelt tags (e.g., libary, libray)
* Badly encoded tags, such as unlikely compound word groupings (e.g.,TimBernersLee)
* Tags that do not follow convention in issues such as case and number; singular versus plural form (e.g., apple, apples)
* Personal tags that are without meaning to the wider community (e.g., mydog)
* Single-use tags that appear only once in the database. (e.g., billybobsdog)
February 2006
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