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The changing Web

Learning with e's

Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). geotagging).

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LearnTrends Live: Harold Jarche on PKM

Jay Cross

Weekly overview of interesting stuff found on Twitter: tagged as Friday Favorites and posted weekly. “Categories&# are your personal folksonomy. Delicious is delicious. Harold downloads his Delicious files monthly. Harold asked himself, “What is it I actually do?&#. “Retrieving&# is recall.

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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

Even if you’re not sure what tagging is, you’ve already seen it in action on sites like Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Diigo, and many others. BTW, the art of tagging by folks who are not librarians or catalogers is called “folksonomy.”). NOTE: Delicious isn’t a thing anymore but Diigo works the same way.). Start saving.

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Folksonomies, memes and misunderstanding

Learning with e's

It all started with a message on Twitter from @stephendale who stated: "A taxonomist: One who organizes information in ways that makes sense to content providers, rather than content users." I was thinking about individuals tagging and organising their own content using tools such as Delicious , and then making them available to others.