Old Toys Tagged "folksonomy"

Dog Tags / Dog-egories

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 13th, 2008 7:49 am

Are tag clouds, as Read/Write Web suggests, entombed? dead?
On my fleet of NMC WordPress site I am shifting to using tags more on posts as an organizer, and tossing some clouds on the pages (see lower right sidebar of Pachyderm Services). Its a bit easier on these sites that have a relatively low number of [...]

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Wiki-ing the Talk… Knowledge Sharing with Distributed Networking Tools

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 14th, 2005 3:44 pm

I’m still drowning in a flotsam of un-done tasks, but I was glad I shoved by a little bit of time to check our Leigh Blackall and Sean FitzGerald’s presentation for Cool Results: Engaging Clients in E-learning hosted by LearningTimes Australia. It’s well worth a look, or at least tossing a bookmark at [...]

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Pour Some RawSugar On Your Bookmarks

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 1st, 2005 1:35 pm

Just when we thought the net was full to the brim with social bookmark tools, comes another new kid on the block: RawSugar:
RawSugar enables you to save and tag all your favorite web pages and then later find the one need in seconds. Why is this so important? Think of how many times you forgot [...]

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Tag Spam / Tag Mud — Way Down Here in the Long Tail of Social Software

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 25th, 2005 10:30 am

Tagging is in. You’re It!
From tagging web sites to bookmarks, to photos it is changing the way we look at and organize large globs of information. It is spreading to other content, like news, music, movies, heck, maybe even learning content… Yes, folksonomy is hip and happening, eveolving and causing disruption. However, it thrives in [...]

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