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Tags to Hashtags

August 21, 2009

I’ve written a new plugin for wordpress entitled “AHP Tags to Hashtags” for use with WordPress and WordPress MU. The plugin can be found for now at pastebin here, I will update when it’s been added to the official wordpress plugin repository. The plugin appends the tags for each post to the post title in [...]

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Semantic authoring

February 21, 2008

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 a measure of classification, but it does not capture the true semantic essence of the document. Automated Semantic Parsing (especially within a given [...]

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del.icio.us bundle linkrolls

January 1, 2008

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, however, because it’s often hard to enforce a self-discipline on what tags you assign. I’ve spent a lot of time manually pruning my tags but [...]

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taxonomy versus folksonomy

December 7, 2007

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 existing category system. As present, both categories1 and tags are systems for taxonomy: tax·on·o·my (tăk-sŏn’ə-mē) pronunciation n., pl. -mies. 1. The classification of organisms in an ordered system [...]

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