Social tagging
Without a doubt tagging lends itself to social and collaborative support – this is one tool we in the library world will have no problems in identifying with…just don’t bring LCSH into it! I really like the ability of creating threads and using terms that will help individuals draw personal like things together and hence help the tracing and finding. Note the "links" for the term in the photos from Flickr by Chele in LA nice+smooth ultramedia.
With people trying to be clever with their naming conventions it is handy to look at the tags to have an idea what the site etc is about… As I am not willing to compromise the SOE (…and get into trouble) I have not gone into getting buttons etc so I found the Del.icio.us site useful with its how to information and descriptions. In exploring I discovered this site and am tempted to draw my niece’s attention to it….now a teenager she still loves her lollies…
http://candyaddict.com/blog/top-10-grossest-candies/links/
The audios and clips have helped in developing a better understanding of these tools and I agree the Otter Group tutorial is a good one and certainly drew attention to its use for research and teaching – it did bring to mind perhaps there is a “loose” parallel between tagging and citing! Researchers/Scholars especially advocates of “open access” could find tagging second nature as within scholarly publishing they would have be accustomed to assigning keywords. Monitoring areas of interest is certainly facilitated by tagging. Does add another dimension to our information literacy efforts re formal thesauri/subject keywords and now the informal!
Technorati
Technorati tour was not loading…tried a few times…so just explored and read. Really pleased to have discovered Technorati, searching mechanism opens up possibilities for information…really polite site with messages such as “Sorry, this isn't working right now. Please try again..” Searched this project’s website and found indication of rank which I think is really a numerical listing rather than a ranking against “something”…maybe someone can clarify this!
Interesting finds with the term ecu. Tag has indication of when loaded which is handy for checking currency. Flickr & Youtube feeds into this or other way maybe as it comes up quickly with the videos etc
Without a doubt tagging lends itself to social and collaborative support – this is one tool we in the library world will have no problems in identifying with…just don’t bring LCSH into it! I really like the ability of creating threads and using terms that will help individuals draw personal like things together and hence help the tracing and finding. Note the "links" for the term in the photos from Flickr by Chele in LA nice+smooth ultramedia.
With people trying to be clever with their naming conventions it is handy to look at the tags to have an idea what the site etc is about… As I am not willing to compromise the SOE (…and get into trouble) I have not gone into getting buttons etc so I found the Del.icio.us site useful with its how to information and descriptions. In exploring I discovered this site and am tempted to draw my niece’s attention to it….now a teenager she still loves her lollies…
http://candyaddict.com/blog/top-10-grossest-candies/links/
The audios and clips have helped in developing a better understanding of these tools and I agree the Otter Group tutorial is a good one and certainly drew attention to its use for research and teaching – it did bring to mind perhaps there is a “loose” parallel between tagging and citing! Researchers/Scholars especially advocates of “open access” could find tagging second nature as within scholarly publishing they would have be accustomed to assigning keywords. Monitoring areas of interest is certainly facilitated by tagging. Does add another dimension to our information literacy efforts re formal thesauri/subject keywords and now the informal!
Technorati
Technorati tour was not loading…tried a few times…so just explored and read. Really pleased to have discovered Technorati, searching mechanism opens up possibilities for information…really polite site with messages such as “Sorry, this isn't working right now. Please try again..” Searched this project’s website and found indication of rank which I think is really a numerical listing rather than a ranking against “something”…maybe someone can clarify this!
Interesting finds with the term ecu. Tag has indication of when loaded which is handy for checking currency. Flickr & Youtube feeds into this or other way maybe as it comes up quickly with the videos etc
1 comment:
better link is this one:
http://candyaddict.com/blog/top-10-grossest-candies/
Rather than linking to the links page, link to the #10 gross candy so people can go through the whole countdown :)
brian
http://candyaddict.com
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