Random Acts of Senseless Tagging
Posted by: DonXML Demsaks All Things Techie,
on 14 Nov 2005 |
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Tagging, tagging everywhere, but not a drop of connotation to be found.
Seems like everyone is tagging their photos, blogs and music with extra meta-data to try to help describe the content. Just check out sites like Filckr (for photos), Technorati and Del.icio.us (for blogs and websites), and MusicStrands and Last.Fm (for music) to see what I mean. This type of open tagging of data has been given the name Folksonomy (aka social classification). The idea behind tagging is to make...