Is this how folksonomies are supposed to work? "Hint to conference planners: If you want the blogosphere to synchronize its coverage of your event, pick a tag and promote it." No, that's just the big spike speaking again. This is better, isn't it: "there are also implicit tags - namely links - that identify items about the conference." Of course. That's what I demonstrate here. "Can these ad hoc syntaxes be collaboratively extended?" Yes. That's what I propose here (and elsewhere). And in a related item, more discussion on tag spam and the, um, "interestingness" of results. And in another related item, Matt Locke writes that folksonomies "are only useful in a context in which nothing is at stake." Now some people may disagree with me, and that's fine, but I'd sure like to know why.
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