For those of us who can't keep up with tags, semantic webs and covered bridges...
Shelley Powers has a nice post on Burningbird that ties together a lot of threads, interspersed with her photography. Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Caf�
At the theoretical level I get all the flurry around tags and folksonomy, but I'd like to know how useful this is for the second wave. I know the early adopters are all excited, but has anyone thought about what it would look like in the second wave? How much people will even take time to tag, much less use tags as an organizational tool?
Are we again designing purely for the early adopters, or are we providing a proving ground for ideas that will live or die? If they live, will they be sufficiently adapted and/or adopted by the next wave, or just die AFTER the early adopters adopt them?
I worry about that balance between wide open exploration and naval gazing.
Or maybe it is just because it is Friday with no Saturday in sight due to work. :-( In any case, I appreciate Shelley's writing. It helped me understand more.
Technorati Tags: tags, tagging, folksonomy, adoption, second_wave
posted by Nancy White at 3:15 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Nancy, thanks for alerting me to technorati tags. I have started to use them in my blog and I've noticed that all my categories have been picked up as tags as well. Must be a feature of movable type.
I think a tag's power will come from how tag names emerge--will the terms used by an individual be those used by the crowd-- and whether users realise that searching blogs using tags (assuming the group meaning coincides with your meaning) is more useful than simply searching for a isolated word. Perhaps the next step is what Steven Johnson talks about in his essay in New York Times which describes new software tools used to match similar ideas.
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