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tagged tags use_of_tags by nrose ...on 15-MAY-08
tagged ala tags by walther ...and 1 other person ...on 26-JUN-07
tagged penntags tags by cagna ...and 11 other people ...on 04-FEB-07

Argues for the usefulness of collaborative tagging, and highlights the known problems with free tagging. Points to some obvious, and some more controversial ways of limiting problems of inter-tagger inconsistency and meaningless distinctions.

 

In this article we look at what makes folksonomies work. We agree with the premise that tags are no replacement for formal systems, but we see this as being the core quality that makes folksonomy tagging so useful. We begin by looking at the issue of "sloppy tags", a problem to which critics of folksonomies are keen to allude, and ask if there are ways the folksonomy community could offset such problems and create systems that are conducive to searching, sorting and classifying. We then go on to question this "tidying up" approach and its underlying assumptions, highlighting issues surrounding removal of low-quality, redundant or nonsense metadata, and the potential risks of tidying too neatly and thereby losing the very openness that has made folksonomies so popular.

tagged articles folksonomies tags tagging by laallen ...and 1 other person ...on 04-JAN-07
tagged tags uva by vallhonr ...and 1 other person ...on 22-NOV-06
tagged tagging tags by nrose ...on 06-NOV-06
Wired article
tagged tagging tags by nrose ...and 11 other people ...on 06-NOV-06
"Microfinance institutions and efficiency." Omega [0305-0483] 35.2 (2007). 131-.
tagged tags by laallen ...on 03-OCT-06
Microfinance : perils and prospects / edited by Jude L. Fernando. [0415328748 (hb) ] London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Call#: Van Pelt Library HG178.3 .M5343 2006


tagged keywords tags by laallen ...on 03-OCT-06

from the infosthetics blog - "semantically ordered tag clouds that resemble self-organizing maps. the size of the text & the color brightness of the background represent the frequency of the different terms. this technique has been applied to visualize the keywords present in website favorites, or the tags used by different del.ico.us users for the same web pages."

 tags clouds developed by Moritz Stefaner

tagged mapping tags maps tagging tag_clound by jn ...on 31-AUG-06
from writely
tagged help tags by vallhonr ...on 31-AUG-06
tagged for_winkler social_software tags photos images by laallen ...on 14-APR-06
tagged tags by nrose ...and 11 other people ...on 12-APR-06
TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag's link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.
tagged tagclouds tags web2.0 tagging by laallen ...on 09-JAN-06
Here The Search Guy claims that inconsistency in assigning keywords is the problem with tagging, and I would say that that same inconsistency is the whole reason why tags are useful in some instances. Because if I'm looking for something that I've already found, I want to be able to search for it in the context that I remember it, and not in some arbitrary other context that someone else imagined. It's not a replacement for subject headings in most cases, but is another way of keeping information.
tagged describing keywords tagging tags by laallen ...on 01-DEC-05
This is a new browser, based on the Firefox model, that incorporates tagging and feeds into its structure. I wonder how hard it will be to add extensions.
tagged ajax browser greasemonkey tagging wow tags newtech by laallen ...on 01-DEC-05
Useful article explaining how to use connotea and why you might want to.
tagged connotea tagging tags by dayannet ...on 28-OCT-05

Now this is different. Take a PDF, put it thru this service, get a printed book. Of course it comes at a cost.

A 300 page PDF would cost $12.50, 100 pages would be $7.50.

From the PrintFu website:

PrintFu is a super easy to use system that will take your large (more than 25 page) PDF files, print them double sided, bind them using a comb binder (or 3 hole drill if the document contains more than 700 pages). We then ship the manual the same day. Delivery date is usually 2-3 days

Pretty cool...

tagged pdf print_on_demand tags by winkler4 ...on 16-OCT-05