NotesOn the internet, there is a clear social understanding of hashtags. If we create web rings for hashtags, we can use that to connect arbitrary web pages that add those hashtags to their content. This will allow us to create hashtag aggregation pages (like those on Twitter or Mastodon) that cross platform boundaries. The web ring will act as a community library that people can contribute to, filing their posts and articles and resources where they feel they fit.FeedUnfurl
NotesIf you can get past the rambling paragraphs of awkward fun-poking at tags interspersed with library science / web 2.0 / cultural references—as well as a discovery of what, you know, Flickr is all about—there's a well-embellished and obsessively-assembled statistical analysis of tags vs title vs notes in finding photos featuring tourist heel-spinning on the testicles of a bull mosaic in Milan. My impression is that she's missed the point of tags, but I'm having trouble reducing the impression to a critique.FeedUnfurl
Notes"Previous studies of tagging determined that many common tags are not directly subject related but are in fact affective tags dwelling on a user's emotional response to a document or are time and task related tags related to a users current projects or acUnfurl
NotesNoticing one thing missing from most tagging schemes: Preservation of the order of tags as entered with the item. Seems minor, but it's actually important for capturing intent.FeedUnfurl
Notes"I’ve started to implement this machine tag format here. If you look at my last post—which has a whole list of books—you’ll see that I’ve tagged the post with a bunch of machine tags in the book:isbn format."Unfurl
NotesCheck the 'user-generated' tags: "talentless (28) garbage (18) idiot (17) laughable (16) music to make you long for the sweet release of death (15) hack (13) crap (12) loser (10) terrible (8) clown (7) aka vogon poetry (6)"Unfurl
Notes"I’m going to analyse some of the more well-known tag clouds on the internet, explain what’s wrong, and then show you one way to do it better."Unfurl
Notes"MySQL is just not built for large tag-systems. It just doesn't scale. It does scale up to 1 Million items but delicious does have far more posts."Unfurl
An Experiment in Social Media
Do Tags Work?