taxonomy versus folksonomy
The WordPress 2.3.x branch officially incorporated tagging into the WordPress core, rendering many third-party tagging plugins obsolete. However, the implementation of tags is largely redundant to the...
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ScottSM has written a folksonomy plugin for WordPress! * v0.21 12-15-2007: o Fixed overlap between tag add and comment add $_POST variables * v0.2 12-15-2007: o Added Control Panel o Added Subscribers...
View ArticleThe first WordPress-based folksonomy
I’ve added ScottSM’s WP_Folksonomy plugin to my Haibane.info blog. It seems to work like a charm, and is up to version 0.5. It’s a grand experiment of sorts, representing the very first WordPress-based...
View Articledel.icio.us bundle linkrolls
The grandfather of social bookmarking sites is del.icio.us, which basically brought “tagging” mainstream (along with Technorati). Most people I know who use the service end up with unwieldy tag clouds,...
View Articlewordpress folksonomy progress
The experiment of adding Scott’s WP_Folksonomy plugin to my blog has been a success so far. My blog, haibane.info, is by no means a giant traffic draw but it does have enough that the userbase has been...
View ArticleSemantic authoring
RWW argues that for the Semantic Web to really take off, content-management systems need to incorporate semantic markup. They argue, Allowing authors or readers to add tags to articles or posts allows...
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beyond the tag cloud: the tagdex
I think tag clouds are somewhat useless, to be honest. They are a nice way to fill up a bit of space in a sidebar, if you restrict the cloud to the top 25 or so, but unless the writer is imposing a...
View ArticleThe problem with Web2.0
I intended to write a blog post on this topic, but ended up using Powerpoint oto t organize my thoughts, and then realized that the resulting slideshow mace the post somewhat superfluous. It is a...
View Articlewhither NewsJunk?
One of my mantras is to rely on others to filter my data in the social web, because the key to improving your signal to noise ratio is not to try and filter the noise, but actually to reduce your...
View ArticleRSS is dead; long live RSS!
I was quite perplexed to see this article at ZDNet on techmeme, arguing that RSS is a failure. Now, I’ve been relying less and less on Google Reader myself as a source of news as well, but that’s not...
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