In a previous essay, I wrote about the cognitive aspect of tagging - describing how people tag, and why they find it easy. There is another, equally important aspect of tagging that I did not touch upon - the "why" of tagging. Why do people tag? For many,
Using RhNav - Rhizome Navigation I wrote a data aggregator for Technorati's API. The first result is a video which visualizes blog domains by analysing Technorati's Cosmos (the blogs which link to a particular URL). The video is a screencast of RhNav fetc
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B. Berendt, A. Hotho, and G. Stumme. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 8 (2-3):
95 - 96(2010)Bridging the Gap--Data Mining and Social Network Analysis for Integrating Semantic Web and Web 2.0; The Future of Knowledge Dissemination: The Elsevier Grand Challenge for the Life Sciences.
B. Berendt, A. Hotho, and G. Stumme. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 8 (2-3):
95 - 96(2010)Bridging the Gap--Data Mining and Social Network Analysis for Integrating Semantic Web and Web 2.0; The Future of Knowledge Dissemination: The Elsevier Grand Challenge for the Life Sciences.