I thought I’d done the virtues of tagging to death, here and here. But there’s still more and it involves references to Aristotle and Plato.
Anyone still reading? David Weinberger (of Cluetrain Manifesto fame) responds to a piece critical of the folksonomy, tagging approach to classification by Elaine Peterson in D-Lib magazine. I’ll paraphrase loosely.
Peterson gives several objections to using tags …read the rest of this article

Photobucket totally dominates the Web 2.0 photo-sharing and storage area according to the Hitwise report I started talking about yesterday .

For the purposes of this post, the distinction between Web 1.0 photo sites and Web 2.0 is a focus on their online presence and sharing on other sites and with other users, as opposed to the traditional approach of storage …read the rest of this article

The Guardian reckons Web 2.0 is ready for the mainstream with its Weekend section dominated by a 15-page feature entitled ‘A Bigger Bang’. John Lanchester’s article provides the keynote to the section, in a piece which is well-written and clever:

a new wave of innovation on the internet, an innovation focused not so much on new technology as on the way …read the rest of this article

Exactly how useful are tags?
Tags and tagging are a big part of the Web 2.0 ethos. Instead of sorting items into folders, you describe them with a series of words. The words you use, the ‘tags’, are up to you. Some people refer to this as ‘folksonomy’ in the sense that tags are home-grown and created by users, as opposed …read the rest of this article

This is the most interesting woman in the world.
I need to clarify that (before the divorce papers are filed). This is the top result for the search term ‘woman’, ranked by interestingness, that I found in a search on flickr this afternoon.

The picture was taken by the very talented Babeffe.
What makes for interestingness on flickr? It’s an aggregation of the …read the rest of this article