Comments for The Horizon http://jrusso.uniblogs.org My experience as a student at Uni and in life. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:26:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 Comment on Organizing a Social Bookmarking Tagging System and How Folksonomies Have a Limited Potential by ZenChaos http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2008/04/02/organizing-a-social-bookmarking-tagging-system-and-how-folksonomies-have-a-limited-potential/#comment-7 ZenChaos Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:24:49 +0000 http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2008/04/02/organizing-a-social-bookmarking-tagging-system-and-how-folksonomies-have-a-limited-potential/#comment-7 I think the problem with the approach you suggest is two-fold: 1) Any type of taxonomy needs to have community buy-in. When your dealing with a distributed community it isn't possible to get this. Without it who determines what the taxonomy should be and what authority do they have to do this? A default taxonomy would only likely lead to taxonomy forking which wouldn't be any better then folksonomy. 2) The cognitive process of tagging is much easier then that associated with putting things into even a simple taxonomy. The reality is the ease of naming something (effectively what a tag is) is why so many people tag. The interesting thing is that since tags are part of language they have an implicit hierarchy or set of related words. Algorithmic ways to do root stemming, etc might help promote "findability" of ideas without imposing the cognitive load of a taxonomy. I think the problem with the approach you suggest is two-fold:

1) Any type of taxonomy needs to have community buy-in. When your dealing with a distributed community it isn’t possible to get this. Without it who determines what the taxonomy should be and what authority do they have to do this? A default taxonomy would only likely lead to taxonomy forking which wouldn’t be any better then folksonomy.

2) The cognitive process of tagging is much easier then that associated with putting things into even a simple taxonomy. The reality is the ease of naming something (effectively what a tag is) is why so many people tag.

The interesting thing is that since tags are part of language they have an implicit hierarchy or set of related words. Algorithmic ways to do root stemming, etc might help promote “findability” of ideas without imposing the cognitive load of a taxonomy.

]]> Comment on Contact by David Bradley http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/about/#comment-6 David Bradley Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:13:38 +0000 http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/about/#comment-6 Hi Nice to hook up on iminta and twitter etc. I'll be keeping a close eye on your very interesting stuff. Speaking of which. The pale background and not particularly dark and small text on your blog is making my eyeballs ache in this bright light. I need to get a laptop hood or some antiglare sheeting somewhere... db Hi

Nice to hook up on iminta and twitter etc. I’ll be keeping a close eye on your very interesting stuff. Speaking of which. The pale background and not particularly dark and small text on your blog is making my eyeballs ache in this bright light. I need to get a laptop hood or some antiglare sheeting somewhere…

db

]]> Comment on Social Content Platform Emerges by The New BricaBox: We’ve Launched http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2008/02/26/social-content-platform-emerges/#comment-5 The New BricaBox: We’ve Launched Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:57:18 +0000 http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2008/02/26/social-content-platform-emerges/#comment-5 [...] Web, CenterNetworks, Mashable, SomewhatFrank, WWWhatsnew, Changing Way, Silicon Alley Insider, jrusso, and others for the coverage. (I’ll add your link here when I see [...] […] Web, CenterNetworks, Mashable, SomewhatFrank, WWWhatsnew, Changing Way, Silicon Alley Insider, jrusso, and others for the coverage. (I’ll add your link here when I see […]

]]> Comment on Social Content Platform Emerges by Nate Westheimer http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2008/02/26/social-content-platform-emerges/#comment-4 Nate Westheimer Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:37:42 +0000 http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2008/02/26/social-content-platform-emerges/#comment-4 Hey, thanks for the thoughts and kind words! I'm interested in hearing more about your semantic news concept and where you ran up against issues pulling it off with BricaBox (I'm actually speaking abt the semantic web later tonight at NYC's Social Media Club). Drop me a line. Nate PS: I'm glad you found it relatively easy to use. We'll definitely make UI enhancements as we go forward to better market this to the mainstream. Thanks again! Hey, thanks for the thoughts and kind words! I’m interested in hearing more about your semantic news concept and where you ran up against issues pulling it off with BricaBox (I’m actually speaking abt the semantic web later tonight at NYC’s Social Media Club).

Drop me a line.
Nate

PS: I’m glad you found it relatively easy to use. We’ll definitely make UI enhancements as we go forward to better market this to the mainstream.
Thanks again!

]]> Comment on Concentration Tips by Tejvan Pettinger http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2007/11/27/concentration-tips/#comment-3 Tejvan Pettinger Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:49:20 +0000 http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2007/11/27/concentration-tips/#comment-3 Thanks for linking my article and glad it could be of use. I started to learn concentration techniques in my last year at Uni - it did help. Thanks for linking my article and glad it could be of use. I started to learn concentration techniques in my last year at Uni - it did help.

]]> Comment on Hello Emptiness! by Mr WordPress http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2007/10/22/hello-world/#comment-1 Mr WordPress Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:20:04 +0000 http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2007/10/22/hello-world/#comment-1 Hi, this is a comment.<br />To delete a comment, just log in, and view the posts' comments, there you will have the option to edit or delete them. Hi, this is a comment.
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]]> Comment on Blogging and Not Blogging by Liz http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2007/03/25/blogging-and-not-blogging/#comment-2 Liz Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:36:51 +0000 http://jrusso.uniblogs.org/2007/03/25/blogging-and-not-blogging/#comment-2 Yes! Finally someone who gets my aversion to the ideals society sets upon me! I don't want to operate but their rules, and create a future out of expectations, and I don't see why one should have to. Yes! Finally someone who gets my aversion to the ideals society sets upon me! I don’t want to operate but their rules, and create a future out of expectations, and I don’t see why one should have to.

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