Tag Team
Jim McClellan,
Feb 04, 2005
Overview of the phenomenon known as 'tagging' - that is, the use of user-created keywords (or 'tags') to classify digital content. The resulting (and some say 'emergent') organization of categories is sometimes known as a 'folksonomy'. Tagging is used by sites such as Flick, del.icio.us and Technorati. Worth noting: tag spam. "These 'self-organising effects' aren't always benign. Some bloggers showed that the 'teens' tag on Tech norati brought together innocent photos from Flickr and links to pornographic sites." More on folksonomies here and here via George Siemens. And news that Lulu plans to adopt folksonomies to make its catalog more accessible.
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