Tag Archive for 'folksonomy'

WordPress Plugin: Related Entries 2.0

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alex
on Saturday February 11th, 2006
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Yesterday I installed that plugin in my blog: WordPress Related Entries 2.0. It tries to guess what posts are related to each of your posts, so you can link your related posts together and supposely ease your readers’ navigation through your blog.

The plugin can either guess the relation basing itself on the title, or use special tags that the author put in the posts.

Nevertheless, in my case I already use Jerome’s Keywords Plugin to tag my posts, so repeating the keywords twice wouldn’t be productive, so I modified Related Entries so it can work with Jerome’s Keywords format. And it seems to be working fine :-).

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What’s that folksonomy thing?

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alex
on Friday October 28th, 2005
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You probably noticed that the trend on web sites is to let you assign “tags” to some contents. These tags are keywords you freely choose for describing those contents.

For example, on Flickr, people give tags to their pictures. On del.icio.us, people tag their links.

By doing this, visitors of those sites can then browse the site content by browsing or searching thru the tags. It’s great — I love this!

Well, I actually discovered last week that this phenomenon is called folksonomy.

The Wikipedia defines it as:

…a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. More colloquially, this refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories. In contrast to formal classification methods, this phenomenon typically only arises in non-hierarchical communities, such as public websites, as opposed to multi-level teams…

This phenomenon has a social component. When tagging, people are not limited to a set of established keywords, they can actually assign any tag of their choice. So the tag set represents people minds and is virtually unlimited.

Folksonomy based sites use to represent the tag set as a so-called “tag cloud”, where each tag boldness (or font size) shows the tag’s popularity amongs the users: the bigger the tag, the most popular it is.

Usually you can syndicate to any part of those sites, using RSS feeds (by user, by tags, most popular or newest entries…).

Here are some folksonomy based sites which I know and/or use (there must be a lot more — feel free to let me know them!):
* Flickr: place there your pictures repository,
* del.icio.us and RawSugar: social bookmarking sites,
* Readers2: Social list of books, share your reading experience with other people,
* MyProgs: Social list of programs - share your working experience with other people.
* 43Things: What do you want to do with your life?,
* Bank Of Ideas: store and share your ideas (for the moment it’s not working very well. It seems a bit experimental)…

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Post tagging plugin for WordPress

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alex
on Sunday October 9th, 2005
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Amazed by Flickr and del.icio.us tagging funcionality, I have been looking for a Wordpress plugin able to do the same kind of things:
* Let me _tag my posts_,
* Generate a _tag map_, also called _tag cosmos_ (look at the sidebar’s tags section),
* Let readers click a tag and get redirected to all the post tagged with it

After looking at various plugins, I’ve tried and selected Jerome’s Keywords Plugin, which gives me all that.

One more thing: tags are saved into the MySQL database in the wp_postmeta table.

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Surfing del.icio.us’ly

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alex
on Saturday October 8th, 2005
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I love Del.icio.us ! It’s a “social bookmarks” manager. Some of the features are :

* Your bookmarks will always be available to you, from anywhere,
* They are public, so anyone can also see them,
* You can tag them with keywords: it’s more powerfull than organizing them into folders (because usually every bookmark can only be in one folder). With del.icio.us, you can assign several tags to them.
* Del.icio.us provides you many level of feeds (top leval, tag level…),

How does it work? Is it eficient ?

Yes, it’s tremendously efficient: From del.icio.us you get an “Add to my del.icio.us” bookmarklet: it’s a piece of Javascript that you place as a bookmark in your browser(s) links toolbar. Then, every time you want to bookmark a page into your del.icio.us, you just have to click on the bookmarklet link in the toolbar. The Del.icio.us page opens, you can then write down some keyword (”tags”) related to the page, and when you save you come back to the page you were reading.

IMHO(In my humble opinion) del.icio.us is one of the thing that make surfing easier…

If you want, you can also place the last addition to your del.icio.us on your blog page, to share your last reading pages with other people — in my case, i use the WordPress del.icio.us plugin to publish my del.icio.us on this page.

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