Introduction: Part of the allure of classifying things by assigning tags to them is that the user can give free reign to sloppiness. There is no authority —human or computational— passing judgment on the appropriateness or validity of tags, because tags have to make sense first and foremost to the individual who assigns and uses [...]
Tag Literacy
April 26th, 2005 · 18 Comments
Tags: collaboration and technology
A del.icio.us study
December 27th, 2004 · 26 Comments
Bookmark, Classify and Share: A mini-ethnography of social practices in a distributed classification community [Note: This is a project I did for a class on social and communicative aspects of the internet, taught by Chuck Kinzer. Not a 'real' study, but you might find some of the literature review and listed resources helpful. You may [...]