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CiteI’dLike

If you were to invent del.icio.us for academics, how would it work? It would allow for bookmarking, tagging, and sharing. It would pull metadata from academic resource databases. It would allow me (the layprof) to organize collected essays and citations with a minimum of clickage. And it would do all these things in a browser, …

February 7, 2006 – 6:33 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Libraryworld, Metawriting, Tagging | Comments (1)

Minding our own business

We need no special issue of Techne to tell us that digital technology comes bundled with a host of political implications. We know that we’re newly vulnerable to tracking, that Google is noting our every search; we know that hackers and spies skulk through networks; we know that access, permissions, and digital rights policy is …

January 31, 2006 – 12:12 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Libraryworld, Tagging | Comments (0)

s.tag.gering towards

If the idea of faceless hoards organizing the web’s pro/con/fusion in absolutely uncontrolled fashion gets you hot, or bothered, or both, this article on folksonomy by Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin in the latest issue of D-Lib is worth a look. It’s a nice rundown of behavior on those 900-pound gorillas of social tagging sites, …

January 18, 2006 – 5:12 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Metawriting, Tagging | Comments (2)

Looming clouds

Last summer (yes it was once summer) I wrote a bit about TagCloud — a nifty folksonomy visualization tool. When the MetaMuser mentioned this app recently, I took another look and decided to see how websites I visit might cloud together. Which is a convoluted way of announcing ClayfoxClouds – wherein three groups of RSS …

January 5, 2006 – 6:33 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Metawriting, Tagging | Comments (1)