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 […]
Tag Archive for 'memes'
Tuning Folksonomies
Published by January 31st, 2005 in Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management, Build This, Please and Folksonomy. 0 CommentsWordPress Related Entries plugin
Published by September 5th, 2004 in Blogging, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management and Build This, Please. 0 CommentsA while back I hinted to the hackers in the crowd that I would love to have a tool for aggregating the posts related to a particular meme on my site. Well, it looks like somebody did it. Unfortunately, it was for the wrong blog tool.
D’Arcy Norman called my attention to this WordPress plug-in that […]
Tracking Memes in the Wild, Part III
Published by August 31st, 2004 in Blogging, Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management, Build This, Please and Folksonomy. 0 CommentsIn my last two posts, I wrote about the limitations of one method for tracking memes and the promise of second method. That latter method, in brief, was to tag each meme-containing post with a unique text string that could enable you to use a search engine as an aggregator. But how can this be […]
Tracking Memes in the Wild, Part II
Published by August 31st, 2004 in Blogging and Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management. 0 CommentsIn my last post I talked about a meme tracking experiment and bemoaned the fact that it provided no way to track arbitrary memes in the wild. Luckily, an e-Literate reader put me on the track to a workable idea in his comment on a previous post.
Martin Terre Blanche points us to a post on […]
Tracking Memes in the Wild, Part I
Published by August 31st, 2004 in Blogging and Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management. 0 CommentsThe other day, I ran into this post on the Contentious weblog which, in turn, led me to this longer post about an experiment conducted by a PhD student. Basically, he created a survey that he asked people to fill out, post to their blogs, and then pass on, like chain email. He wanted to […]
