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Thu
26 May 2005
3:22 pm

Tonight at Harvard: Tagging - Brilliant or Bullshit?

Posted by shimon under computers/blogging/Berkman Thursdays , computers/blogging/categorization
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Tonight at the Berkman Thursday Blog Meeting I'll be facilitating a discussion about tagging. Tagging is the hot phenomenon of user-supplied labels, used on popular sites like del.icio.us and flickr, and on my own frassle. Why is tagging so popular? What makes it interesting? And is it an innovation or just a short-lived fad that will soon be destroyed by confusion and spam?

Berkman Thursday blog meetings are free, public weekly meetings for people interested in weblogs. We discuss technology along with its social effects and influences, and it's also a chance to complement your online community with some face-to-face meetings, learn the latest tricks, and ask questions—there is no expertise requirement. The meetings, Thursdays at 7pm at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, are also streamed online and have an IRC (chat) channel for participants who can't come to Cambridge, MA. More information is available on our weblog.

Here's the plan for tonight's tagging discussion:

May 26: Tagging is Fabulous! It's Also Crap!

Moderator: Shimon Rura (Weblog: Shimonolog)

 

Shimon Rura will lead a discussion on "tagging" — using
subject-oriented links to distribute and discover information across
blogs and websites using services such as Technorati, Del.icio.us, and Flickr. From Shimon's high-speed summary:

 

  • Part 1: 5 minutes on what tagging is, and some of the major services
    incorporating tagging
  • Part 2: 10 minutes on why tagging is totally amazing and what new forms of
    community discourse and organization it will create, and how it will
    inevitably pervade all information systems and knowledge structures within 5
    years
  • Part 3: 10 minutes on why tagging is a lame hack with no future, that will
    never succeed past the early adopters and in the end will prove to be a huge
    waste of everyone's time
  • Part 4: 15-30 minutes group discussion
Hope to see you there! I expect the group to provide some very interesting discussion and debate.

 

Mon
24 Nov 2003
5:28 am

matt.blogs.it: Whose personality do you want today?

Posted by shimon under computers/blogging/categorization
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