http://cloudalicio.us/ A really interesting look at evolving folksonomies .charts del.icio.us tags associated with a URL over time. Its creator makes an interesting claim about tags that they mark the popular perception of a site and therefore are essentially anthropological interest. It occurs to me some way of organizing folksonomies might evolve from these collections of metadata about tags hmmmm tagging about tagging again?? Not quite .because here we have a method of abstraction capable of automagically culling metadata that has no reasonable incidence or reinforcement overtime. Really useful and shareable metadata is derived from the movements of bodies. Metadata needs to be elicited and involuntary (see: Massumi) in order for it to forge un-thought connections - to mine the virtual (the classic/simple example is an early one - theyrule.net - the complex more recent one is last.fm). The form of analysis that cloud* does takes the incidence rather than the oft confused and schizoid semantic of the tag itself. It treats the act of tagging as a reflex response not essentially a rational categorization so that only after time the tag can be understood as a normal response - or more essentially a normalized result Of course this requires some organized approach to folksonomies that is perspectival .by this I mean that tags require something like the dynamic provided by amazon.. People who tagged this cognition also tagged this cognition and this generative - from here we can truly begin to develop relevant and dynamic folksonomies .perspectival and incidental are the keywords for developers .anyone requiring an explanation or help developing such a system should email me.
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