There can be no arguments about it, machine tags are cool and they solve problems. And now they work in WordPress with bSuite too (svn only, for the moment).
It’s not just because flickr popularized them that I like them, though it helps and you should definitely look at that stuff:

The announcement
Excitement from O’Reilly Radar, ProgrammableWeb, [...]

Posted December 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: folksonomy, machine tags, metadata, scriblio, tagging, tags, taxonomy. Be the first one.

I was honored to join the conversation yesterday for the latest Talis Library 2.0 Gang podcast, this one on folksonomies and tags. The MP3 is already posted and, as usual, it makes me wonder if I really sound like that. Still, listen to the other participants, they had some great things to say and made [...]

Posted July 27, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: folksonomies, folksonomy, interview, l2, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library catalogs, library systems, opacs, podcast, tagging, tags, talis, talking with talis. 6 Comments.

Ross Singer gets the prize for submitting the first reader contributed tag, the latest feature in bsuite.
There are arguments about whether user-contributed tags are useful or even valid, or whether they should be stored in my site or aggregated at places like del.ici.ous. But who’s to worry about such questions? Who’s to worry when you [...]

Posted March 12, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: bsuite, collabulary, folksonomy, tag, tagging, tags, user contributed, wisdom of the crowd, wpopac. 5 Comments.

Bob Garlitz, who’s trying to decide between blogging at Typepad and Blogspot, wrote to offer a somewhat older phrase for the success of social software as described in The Wisdom of Crowds and in the definition of collabulary: “the ignorant perfection of ordinary people.”
Bob is at a loss to identify the source (and it pre-dates [...]

Posted March 9, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: collabulary, folksonomy, ignorant perfection, ordinary people, social software, the ignorant perfection of ordinary people, The Wisdom of Crowds, wisdom of crowds. One Comment.

Flickr does tags better than any other, so far as I can tell.
We love tag folksonomies for way they allow us all to organize our world, for the way they allow patterns to emerge from chaos, and for their easy flexibility. But that flexibility, if poorly implemented in our software, can interrupt the very patterns [...]

Posted March 6, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: Best Practice, doing it right, flickr, folksonomies, folksonomy, tag, tagging, tags. 2 Comments.

David Weinberger at Many-to-Many pointed me to Tom Coates’ post about different schools of thought regarding tags. Coates has been thinking about tags as keywords, annotations. Thats how I’ve been using and thinking about tags too, but some people have different ideas.
…At the end of the argument I said to Joshua that it was almost [...]

Posted July 22, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: annotating, annotations, culture war, david weinberger, folders, folksonomy, keywords, schools of thought, search, social search, tag, tag cloud, tagging, tags, taxonomy, tom coates, yahoo social search. One Comment.

Who doesn’t love tagging? No, tagging as in annotating, not graffiti. Anyway, Rixome is the latest among a bunch of plans/projects to enable tagging of geographic spaces/real-life environments.
The good people at We Make Money Not Art had this in their post:
rixome is a network and a tool that turns mobile screens into windows that show [...]

Posted June 27, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: art student, folksonomy, forward thinking, geography, geolocation, geotag, geotagging, laptop screen, mobile, mobile phone, new media, pda, public dimensions, social environments, spoken message, tag, tagged environments, tagging, tags, urban environments. Be the first one.