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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

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both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. The report also shares some traffic data for the popular tagging sites, Flickr and Delicious. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

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with Joshua Schachter, founder of delicious, with David Weinberger , Berkman Fellow, who moderated. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Tagging in delicious is about 1/3 classification and 2/3 functionality. The other aspect of delicious is that I can participate in a tag stream that is of interest to me.

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

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There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc. If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. The stream of interesting knowledge that comes out of it ???

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

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Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. Tagging and social bookmarking make it easy to share what you know with others or a community by simply exposing your delicious url. You probably noticed that about my tag stream. s a folksonomy. Easily Share What You Know With Others. nouns, etc.