Exploiting free, anonymous services
… use captcha to obfuscate your URLs as parts of images and post them to a particular tag over at Flickr. The possibilities are endless. http://rc3.org/cgi-bin/less.pl?arg=6826
View ArticleIn Lieu of the Promised Article on Tags and SQL
For the folks I promised an article on how to implements tags in SQL. Sorry, I never finished it. I got sucked into some more esoteric problems, and never got back to writing down the basics. However,...
View ArticleTag clouds are the new mullets
Flickr inspired weighted tag lists are only useful when tagging is being deployed as game of discovery, not a useful tool for organziing http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0405d.shtml
View ArticleO’Reilly Connection and Post Search
Not sure why O’Reilly is getting into the yet another social network site space, but having spent 10 minutes playing with O’Reilly Connection, a couple of quick comments. Finally they’re going to do...
View ArticleTagging Music
While Erik suffers from tagging indecision over the every critical “how do I tag lunch?” question, I suffer from a more prosaic question, how do I tag music? MusicBrainz could really distinguish...
View Articledarkcloud: Do you remember when “to tag” meant something you might do with...
Interesting tag I’ve seen around Boston. Associated with my old alma mater http://interrupt.hampshire.edu/darkclouds/
View ArticleQuickly: A Useful Mental Model for Tagging
Lots has now been written on schemas for storing tags (mostly in relational databases). In fact Tag Schema is a blog and mailing list devoted entirely to exploring that space further. (maintained by...
View ArticleTags Bubbling Up, Down, and Sideways
Tom Coates’s is playing with bubbling tags up from individual songs to shows, and albums. a more intriguing, way of aggregating tags up through a conceptual chain would be to view albums as collections...
View ArticleJotTaggingExperiment
just what wikis needs more unstructured data creation! (j/k but I would like to see wiki tagging best practices integrated with backlinks practices) http://developer.jot.com/WikiHome/JotTaggingExperiment
View ArticleDel.icio.us Actually Getting Social
It is interesting to sit on a blog post for 3 weeks, and see how well they age. Most age very badly, but some age badly for excellent reasons, i.e. the world changes. (politics are a great example of...
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On Book Listing Services
For years I’ve wanted a decent website where I can manage my relationship with books. (not especially complicated, but voluminous) For a while there was largely nothing, then there was Allconsuming...
View ArticleFeedexa is a free online feed aggregator for subscribing, searching and...
and it uses Magpie http://www.feedexa.com/
View ArticleYahoo and del.icio.us: A bit of speculation
So the Yahoo acquisition of del.icio.us hit every tech blog on the planet this weekend, and hardly needs more rehashing. But a couple of ideas I haven’t seen elsewhere from one of my mailing lists. It...
View ArticleTag Stalking
Some tags I check when trying to figure out who someone is/what their story is: me, friends, work, home, weather, craigslist. Also a quick visual scan for place names. Even folks who’ve managed to stay...
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My hopes for MusicBrainz 2.0
The post on BB today reminded me of MusicBrainz. I’m still patiently waiting for MusicBrainz to add support for arbitrary, user-contributed, emergent flat classification. (i.e. what the rest of us...
View ArticleFlexible Category Lists for WordPress
One of the side effect of overloading (perverting?) the WordPress category system to do tagging is you end up with over 1000 categories. The posting interface gets unhappy, and the wp_list_cats...
View ArticleIs there any living, breathing example of a taxonomic approach working?
Scaling to keep-up with the hyper-efficiency we see in peer-production systems? Anyone? http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/hightouch?entry=taxonomies_vs_folksonomies
View ArticleWikipedia: Machine tag
“Machine tags are form of tag, introduced in January 2007 by Flickr. They comprise three parts, a namespace, a predicate and a value.” Goodness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_tag
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Griots
A griot (pronounced /g?i.??/ in English or [??i.o] in French, with a silent t) or jeli (djeli or djéli in French spelling) is a West African poet, praise singer, and wandering musician, considered a...
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