Tags and the Power of Suggestion
REMINDER: LibraryThing is offering $1,000 worth of books if you find us an employee! As usually argued, tags have “low cognitive cost,” a high-cognitive cost way of saying “you dash them off.” You grab...
View ArticleTagmash: Book tagging grows up
Tagmash: alcohol, history gets over the fact that almost nobody tags things history of alcohol Short version: I’ve just gone live with a new feature called “tagmash,” pages for the intersections of...
View ArticleWhat does tagging do to knowledge?
Back when David Weinberger‘s Everything is Miscellaneous was published, LibraryThing ordered a box of copies to give out at conferences and so forth. (Although LibraryThing is mentioned only in...
View ArticleTagging innovations, from the government
Has anyone seen click-based tag clouds? These are tag clouds in which the size of the words depend not on the number of times something has been tagged, but on the number of times the tag is clicked. I...
View ArticleAn academic take on LibraryThing tags
I just discovered Tiffany Smith’s “Cataloging and You: Measuring the Efficacy of a Folksonomy for Subject Analysis“.* It’s the first detailed academic study of LibraryThing tagging—and a very...
View ArticleTagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web
“Walk into the public library in Danbury, Connecticut, and you’ll find the usual shelves stacked with books, organized into neat rows. Works of fiction are grouped alphabetically by the author’s last...
View ArticleThe Long Tail of Ann Coulter
Here is are two charts showing the distribution of customer tags on Amazon.com for Ann Coulter’s Godless: The Church of Liberalism. The first shows tags 1-25; the second all 881 tags. The distribution...
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