cogdogblog

Note: CogDogBlog has a new WordPress powered home at http://cogdogblog.com/. All entries from this version have been moved there, so as a guide dog service try finding this article in its new home by title search.

Tags on delicious flickring Steroids: Taggregator

Last week it was Tags on Speed. That was then, this is now...

Richard S writes "More on Social tags" pointing to "taggregator" an experiment with allows you to provide one "tag" and it generates a side by side view of del.icoi.us and flickr results:

Someone built a thing I wanted to but didn’t — the taggregator. It’s ace — lets you compare what del.icio.us and flickr users have recorded under the same tag. Add “?tag=[yourtag]” to the URI to see the most recent posts from both under that tag.

I used the data from tenbyten to show what the taggregator thinks about the current most frequently-used word in the news: go here to be redirected.

This got me thinking a bit around social tagging and horizontal classification (or “folksonomies”, if your stomach is strong enough). When someone chooses to use a particular tag to describe a resource, that decision is typically made spontaneously, with little or no consideration behind it (this is more true of flickr than del.icio.us). The factors that influence this decision reflect what the resource being tagged means to the individual tagging it

It is easy to play, just take the URL http://oddiophile.com/taggregator/index.php?tag= and add after the "=" your desired tag, e.g.

Dog Tag
http://oddiophile.com/taggregator/index.php?tag=dog

Vegemite Tag
http://oddiophile.com/taggregator/index.php?tag=vegemite

Learning Object Tag
http://oddiophile.com/taggregator/index.php?tag=learningobject

Tag Tag
http://oddiophile.com/taggregator/index.php?tag=tag

I love the mix.