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Here’s an interesting report from PEW on tagging<\/a>.\u00a0 In Decemeber of last year they found that 28% of Internet users are taggers and 7% of us tag on a daily basis.\u00a0 If you are familiar with del.icio.us<\/a>, you are probably familiar with the tagging phenomenon.\u00a0 Wikipedia calls a tag<\/a> a keyword that is associated with some piece of information.\u00a0 If I were reading an article about the Hubble Telescope, I might tag it with astronomy<\/strong>.\u00a0 Later I could come back to my list and ask to see all the references tagged with astronomy and more easily find that one link I was looking for.\u00a0 Using a service like del.icio.us, you can organize all your Internet links using\u00a0tags and all the links will be stored in one online location.\u00a0 I do this with my presentations.\u00a0 To find all of the links referenced in the talk I gave at the 2006 eTech Ohio Conference, you can search del.icio.us for eTechOhio06<\/a> and find all 41 of the links that were in my presentation.\u00a0 Having the ability to find all those links with one keyword is handy given the fact that I talked about those 41 links in a 50 minute presentation with a lot of other content.\u00a0 I wanted the audience to listen to the content and not worry about writing down every link.\u00a0 In the first minute, they all had the tag.\u00a0 After that, they were able to pay attention to the more important content of the presentation.<\/p>\n I’m a daily tagger.\u00a0 I blogged about Scuttle<\/a> before.\u00a0 I setup my own server and use it for my personal bookmarks.\u00a0 I find it quicker to use than delicious because all the links there are mine.\u00a0 For class projects I have also found Scuttle to be more useful.\u00a0 The first time I worked with a class of 30 freshmen to build a group of links for a course, we decided to tag all the links with EDUC260 (the course number).\u00a0 Some people used EDUC 260 (note the space), so delicious didn’t associate those links with our “class tag”.\u00a0 Other students left the class tag out altogether.\u00a0 In the end, almost half of the links didn’t have the needed tag to associate them with the course.\u00a0 With Scuttle, I can create a separate “link database” for each class.\u00a0 It takes me an extra five minutes to setup.\u00a0 Considering the benefit, that is trivial.\u00a0 I have the students enter the links by going to a specific URL and all the links are grouped into one database without using any special tags.\u00a0 This way, the students may use tags that describe the content of the link and not just the course.<\/p>\n By using tags to keep track of information, a new visual depiction of information has been created.\u00a0 This is the tag cloud<\/a>.\u00a0 The tag cloud shows a list of the tags most used in a subset.\u00a0 A larger font is used for the tags used most often and a smaller font for tags used the least often.\u00a0 The graphic at the top of this post is the tag cloud generated from all my personal links.\u00a0 The subset of tags can be anything: my delicious account, all delicious accounts, all tags created today, etc.<\/p>\n There are even tag clouds for information outside of tagged metadata.\u00a0 Here is an article that shows the three keynote addresses<\/a> given by Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Michael Dell at MacWorld 2007 and CES 2007.\u00a0 All the words from the speeches were analyzed to produce tag clouds showing which words were used the most during the talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jobs: phone, iphone, ipod It will be interesting to see how analysts use tag cloud information to track different trends.\u00a0 Tagging certainly isn’t going to slow down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s an interesting report from PEW on tagging.\u00a0 In Decemeber of last year they found that 28% of Internet users are taggers and 7% of us tag on a daily basis.\u00a0 If you are familiar with del.icio.us, you are probably … Continue reading
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\nDell: gaming, great, online, digital<\/p>\n