Via Stephen Downes, I see that Mark Oehlert posted a list of Blackboard’s pending patents, 8 of which were filed for in the last year (6 of which were filed in October and November of last year), and many of which are not covered in Blackboard’s patent pledge. This has prompted me to invest a […]
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Published by February 17th, 2007 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Digital Democracy, Notable Posts and Folksonomy. 3 CommentsThe Promise and Perils of Social Software
Published by June 18th, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management and Folksonomy. 0 CommentsMy friend Joe Ugoretz has a new article on social software in the Academic Commons. He provides a good overview of a number of social software tools and suggestions about how to use them. But also embedded in his piece is a warning about what happens if we fail to embrace the new technologies and […]
Del.icio.us Feast
Published by March 26th, 2005 in Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management and Folksonomy. 1 CommentI admit it: Much as del.icio.us has intrigued me, I could never quite figure out how to use the darned thing. Lucky for me, Eric Feinblatt turned me on to a screencast on the topic by John Udell. If you’re like me and you haven’t quite been able to get into del.icio.us, then check out […]
Technorati to Provide Folksonomy Tuning
Published by March 6th, 2005 in Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management and Folksonomy. 0 CommentsAccording to David Weinberger, Technorati is about to add a folksonomy tuning feature that shows related tags, making closely related content more findable. This is the kind of thing we need to make folksonomies be useful as more than just fun toys.
Mix in a faceted results tuner like fac.etio.us and you’ve got something really cool.
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Faceted Folksonomies
Published by February 20th, 2005 in Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management and Folksonomy. 1 CommentI’ve been meaning to blog about fac.etio.us but Alan beat me to it. Basically, facetious allows you to create what amounts to a pivot table out of folksonomy-tagged web pages.
This is a better solution than creating faceted single tags (e.g., “arthistory:france”) that I made a while back because (a) it’s simpler, and (b) it doesn’t […]
