#tagging

"Previous studies of tagging determined that many common tags are not directly subject related but are in fact affective tags dwelling on a user's emotional response to a document or are time and task related tags related to a users current projects or ac

there's always an edge case: "first posted by anassa to type:fanfic fandom:sga genre:slash genre:het genre:futurefic genre:kidfic wc:1001-5000 author:sheafrotherdon pairing:john/rodney pairing:jennifer/ronon pairing:teyla/other"

"Give us your del.icio.us username and we'll feed you anything that you've tagged as: "tagmindr" and "remind:YYYY-MM-DD". We'll remind you via RSS, SMS, Email or IM, so long as it's RSS."

"As such, grouping by categories is self-imposed, grouping by tags is organic: You don’t envision your tag cloud first and tailor your blog to fit it, but the tag cloud grows depending on what you write."

"A website dedicated to machine tags"

"I’ve started to implement this machine tag format here. If you look at my last post—which has a whole list of books—you’ll see that I’ve tagged the post with a bunch of machine tags in the book:isbn format."

Check the 'user-generated' tags: "talentless (28) garbage (18) idiot (17) laughable (16) music to make you long for the sweet release of death (15) hack (13) crap (12) loser (10) terrible (8) clown (7) aka vogon poetry (6)"

"del.icio.us is important because it allows the users to tag the Internet. It's a fundamental part of the infrastructure of the Internet."

"As a user, I need a field in which I can let my fingers gush out keyword-tags once I've finished writing my post."

"This program stems every tag in your del.icio.us collection in an effort to find duplicate concepts."

Embedding advanced metadata in tagging conventions / microformats

"Tag literacy in this sense refers to the 'etiquette' of generating tags in a way that increases their social value, balancing individual needs with the needs of the group."

"Since Cocoalicious is open source, I decided I'd try to make a better tag browsing interface."

"What works best for me is to apply tags consistently for all types of metadata for a resource, but freely associative for the rest."

"Commentator David Weinberger says a growing trend allows us all to have a say on how to organize the Internet."

"...I realize the definition of Folksonomy has become completely unglued from anything I recognize..."

It's like an insane variant on outline-mode

"Setting up tags in Trac"

"MySQL is just not built for large tag-systems. It just doesn't scale. It does scale up to 1 Million items but delicious does have far more posts."

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