Today Yahoo announced that they are backing away from delivering studio based content and shifting to consumer created content. We have been talking about this here for some time… What will be interesting is to see what happens to some of the big brands that provide tools for both professional and consumer use. As cell [...]
For many years, my work has been driven by my knowledge of how classification adds value to information within large organisations. How much more rewarding blogging could become if blogger communities were to become more skilled in this art.
I have started with an analysis of Technorati’s most popular tags, as the first step in project to bring bloggers the benefits of classification systems to make their blogs much more easily findable, as well to make reader searching more meaningful. The new Supertaggers blog aims to work with users to design multidimensional classification systems (also known as ‘multifaceted taxonomies’) without all the painful discipline and top down authoritarianism associated with the field.
The project is dedicated to using …