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RSS is dead; long live RSS!

September 1, 2009

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 because of a failure in RSS technology but rather the obsolesence of Google Reader in the [...]

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whither NewsJunk?

November 17, 2008

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 signal. That’s a lot harder than it sounds to do. But it’s made a lot [...]

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beyond the tag cloud: the tagdex

April 12, 2008

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 strict taxonomy on themselves, ultimately the size of the cloud will balloon [...]

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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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wordpress folksonomy progress

February 15, 2008

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 adding some tags of their own. I have at least one user (Scott himself?) who reliably adds tags [...]

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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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The first WordPress-based folksonomy

December 29, 2007

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 true tagging folksonomy rather than the taxonomic implementation that WordPress features by default. Let’s see how it goes, I’ve allowed anyone to [...]

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WP_Folksonomy

December 16, 2007

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 Only and Authorize Tags options o Tracks submitted tags o Added Delete and Accept Tag actions * v0.1 12-14-2007: o A rough public [...]

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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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