Category Archives: Folksonomy

Interesting Interview with Flickr CEO

By Michael Feldstein | February 7, 2005

O’Reilly Netowrk’s Richard Korman has a fascinating interview with Flickr’s CEO Stewart Butterfield. (Love that name, by the way.) There’s lots of good stuff here about what makes Flickr work as social software and how people are using it. Here’s what Butterfield has to say, for example, about folksonomies:

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cogdogblog: Chemistry Students Building Delicious Link Collections

By Michael Feldstein | February 6, 2005

Alan Levine has posted an account of how a chemistry teacher is using del.icio.us tags to have her students gather related resources for her chemistry class.
This is directly relevant to a recent conversation here on e-Literate.
Good stuff.

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Tuning Folksonomies

By Michael Feldstein | January 31, 2005

A while back, I posted an idea for checking to see the degree to which two differently named memes overlap in content. Looking back, what I was really talking about was tuning a folksonomy. What we really want is a way to see how much overlap there is between two tags so that we can [...]

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Trying Out the Technorati Tags Thing

By Michael Feldstein | January 24, 2005

With some reluctance, I have added “folksonomy” as a sub-category in my site themes. I’m doing this specifically because Technorati will now pick up these posts as having been “tagged” with “folksonomy.” Frankly, I’m not sure this is a great idea. It encourages the proliferation of categories, which is not necessarily useful to the readers. [...]

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The Obligatory Folksonomy Post

By Michael Feldstein | January 23, 2005

Commenting on a recent post, Beth Harris asks the question of how the tagging system in Flickr could be used for teaching purposes. (Beth, a fellow SUNY-ite working at FIT, is doing some cool stuff with her art history classes using Flickr.) After thinking about it for a bit, I’m afraid the answer I come [...]

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