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The changing Web

Learning with e's

tools include popular applications such as blogs, wikis and podcasting; social networking sites such as FaceBook and LinkedIn; photo and videosharing services such as Flickr and YouTube; familiar utilities such as RSS feeds, social tagging (e.g. Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. geotagging).

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LearnTrends Live: Harold Jarche on PKM

Jay Cross

Books, blogs, bookmarks, tags, etc. Weekly overview of interesting stuff found on Twitter: tagged as Friday Favorites and posted weekly. “Categories&# are your personal folksonomy. “Making explicit&# is tagging and pigeon-holing. Delicious is delicious. “Retrieving&# is recall.

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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

Social bookmarking improves upon this by letting you tag the things you find with multiple keywords or tags. Tagging can eliminate (or at least minimize) time-sucking searches for that elusive bookmark you know is in there somewhere. BTW, the art of tagging by folks who are not librarians or catalogers is called “folksonomy.”).

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Folksonomies, memes and misunderstanding

Learning with e's

I was thinking about individuals tagging and organising their own content using tools such as Delicious , and then making them available to others. When we tag an object says Mike Wesch, we 'teach the machine'. Taxonomies are imposed, but folksonomies are democratic. In a folksonomy the content defines the community.