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,
Masters thesis on social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services)...and how they support learning, knowledge management, and communities of practice.
M. Morris. CHI '08: Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, page 1657--1660. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)