Excerpt: The idea of tags is very new to me. The first time I noticed it being used was over on my friend Brock's website. Then through friends they pointed me at del.icio.us and then to flickr, all items I...
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Excerpt: The more I read about tagging, the more I am intrigued by it. Perhaps it’s because the dialog is so lively between those who advocate social tagging (folksonomy) and those who advocate a more formal controlled-vocabulary-type approach. I have not...
Read More: Folksonomies and Social Tagging

Excerpt: I did not know much about the idea or the term of tagging. But I hear about the social networks that family and friend or any group of people shares the common interests and hobbies online. I probably see the...
Read More: Online Social Networks and folksonomies

Excerpt: The article Steal this Bookmark is well explained with examples like the 43things.com. Katherine successfully conveys what she thinks about tagging and its social impacts and how it helps to form a network of people with similar interests. She also...
Read More: Week 6 readings on Tagging

Excerpt: Folksonomy christened by Thomas Vander Wal the word means classification of data in a cluster of common tags. There are webservices like Flickr which use folksonomies for tagging for instance a search for peace yielded tags of protest, war, Iraq...
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Excerpt: Marge: [hearing modem noises] Ooh, what's wrong with this phone? It's making crazy noises. Nerd 3: Some guys at MIT are sending us reasons why Captain Picard is better than Captain Kirk. Nerd 1: Hah! They're outta their minds. Ok,...
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Excerpt: Could be revolutionary thinking when it comes to organising the Internet. Or does all the addition of this new data (metadata) just contribute to the information overload problem. All things being equal, I like my information structured. Do I naturally...
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Excerpt: For my classes I have had to write a lot of research papers. For each paper I try to do a thorough review of relevant literature; I utilize the many scholarly databases that are available electronically here at RIT. The...
Read More: Response to Week 6 Readings

Excerpt: Controlled Vocabulary is closely related to folksonomy, currently much of the web makes no effort to group words which are synonyms or which belong to the same genre because of which the potential user could possibly much of valuable information....
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Excerpt: This week, I learned about a concept fairly new to me called Folksonomy, also loosely known as tagging. The definition from Wiki is: "a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords" but I like to just...
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Excerpt: Tagging, according to the Salon.com website (this site wouldn’t let me back-click, so I do not recommend you going to it) is defined as: “the latest twist in the ongoing evolution of social networking software. Except there's a difference: On...
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Excerpt: Alexander says that he doesnt see how sites like Flickr make any social connections. Well here I would like to state that making social connections with people of similar interests is a part of Flickr's functionality. That's one advantage of...
Read More: Comment on alexanders entry for flickr

Excerpt: Alexander says that he doesnt see how sites like Flickr make any social connections. Well here I would like to state that making social connections with people of similar interests is a part of Flickr's functionality. That's one advantage of...
Read More: Comment on alexanders entry for flickr

Excerpt: I agree with Neelambari on that Flickr helps in facilitating social connections. Like I mentioned in my weblog writing that Flickr should not be perceived as just a photo upload and share software but also encourages members to build...
Read More: Comments on Alexander’s and Neelambari’s comment entry on Flickr

Excerpt: Questions of Classification Danah is very rightly so skeptical of folksonomy in part due to the hype that it surrounding the idea in the world of information architecture and classification. The idea that folksonomic tagging is somehow going to be...
Read More: Skepticism is Healthy, in the face of Hype

Excerpt: The more I read about the power of the network, emergence, folksonomies, and other related topics, all I can think about are my experiences in groups that are tasked with a goal. I don't know if it is strictly a...
Read More: Week 6 - Just a Quick Word on Folksonomies

Excerpt: I like the concept of Tagging, which allows networks to emerge implicitly using shared interests of the user as a parameter. It connects people with shared interests and helps in increasing and sharing knowledge (collective intelligence) with each othe...
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Excerpt: Tagging, according to the Salon.com website (this site wouldn’t let me back-click, so I do not recommend you going to it) is defined as: “the latest twist in the ongoing evolution of social networking software. Except there's a difference: On...
Read More: Week 6 Readings

Jason Nguyen writes: "There are still some glitches on the idea of tagging. Sometimes the tag names or vocabularies can be miss-used"

Good point Jason, as of now we assign our own tags, which have diff meanings to diff people. There not really a sense of conformity.