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How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

Museum 2.0

These things could be websites (as in the case of delicious ), videos, objects—whatever. If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Video Sharing: Youtube and several inspired by YouTube including a Romanian video sharing platform. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. It is important to use video, photos, and audio. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

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Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Virtual Worlds and Video Games Ian Bogost takes some of the fun out of video games -- and replaces it with opinion with his "playable editorial cartoons."

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

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I arrived early so I could get a good seat, which paid off because I was close enough to Schachter that I video taped his elevator speech and got a business card , too! and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. For example, taxonomy. Tagging file formats like mp3, video, future might be to tag file types (ical). ???I???m

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NpTechTag Summary: Happy Thanksgiving and Geeky Gobble Gobble

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Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities. Jon Stahl, of OneNorthWest, enjoys 15 minutes of Web video fame in an interview about plone.

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

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I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! Users add tags to describe online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks or text. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s s a folksonomy.