Tag Me Up, Tag Me Down

Tuesday May 03rd 2005, 11:43 am Printer Friendly Version
Filed under:Semantic Web, Social Software
Posted By: Matt

Clay Shirky with a characteristically insightful article, responding to Tim Bray’s question “do we need tags?” on the new You’re It! blog (devoted entirely to tagging). Definitely worth the read. I particularly liked Clay’s point about adding “people” and “time” as dimensions in the search matrix. This is a point that I missed in my earlier post on this topic. I pointed out that the Technorati Tag search for “firefox” yields far better quality results than the equivalent Google search. Much more striking are the results on the corresponding del.icio.us page. No mess or bother at all, just highly relevant links, with the most topical items near the top.

I should mention, by the by, that after all my blathering about Technorati Tags, I recently unsubscribed from their RSS feeds. Nice idea, but still far too much noise.


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