I'm so happy to see people talk about this! I too am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems.
Hillel's thoughts are completely unsurprising to me so I guess I've come to similar conclusions.
I do notice that we seem to care about different things though - where Hillel appears to focus on tag types (and the implementation challenges that go with that) I focus more on human factors like what problem are we solving? for who? How do we maintain relevance (and power) in tagging systems (and for who?)
I'm of the opinion that tagging systems should not be made by the few for the many but by each person for themselves. Which, of course, sucks because that puts the onus on everyone who wants tagged content to do their own work. But I believe the output of that investment would be quite valuable and useful!
An easy example I could use might be recommendation engines. Assume I have a database of tags (a tag cloud?), and I know you have similar interests to me. If you also have a tag cloud, I could input links to both of our tag clouds into a purpose-built recommendation engine to discover new content I might not have consumed yet.
> I could use might be recommendation engines. Assume I have a database of tags (a tag cloud?), and I know you have similar interests to me. If you also have a tag cloud
This was the first "naive" implementation on finclout. Every post get automatically scanned for ranked keywords and then matched with other known entities about the post. We also user collect tags from the user and have users verify keyword matches.
Hillel's thoughts are completely unsurprising to me so I guess I've come to similar conclusions.
I do notice that we seem to care about different things though - where Hillel appears to focus on tag types (and the implementation challenges that go with that) I focus more on human factors like what problem are we solving? for who? How do we maintain relevance (and power) in tagging systems (and for who?)
I'm of the opinion that tagging systems should not be made by the few for the many but by each person for themselves. Which, of course, sucks because that puts the onus on everyone who wants tagged content to do their own work. But I believe the output of that investment would be quite valuable and useful!
An easy example I could use might be recommendation engines. Assume I have a database of tags (a tag cloud?), and I know you have similar interests to me. If you also have a tag cloud, I could input links to both of our tag clouds into a purpose-built recommendation engine to discover new content I might not have consumed yet.