From syndication.apn.co.nz
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Web Tagging
A method of assigning descriptive words and phrases to specific pieces of content such as pictures or articles in order to help find them again in the future
Taggers have trashed initiatives aimed at preventing graffiti, saying it just encourages them to keep vandalising private and public spaces.New research aimed at understanding offender motivation may have implications for policy-makers...
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This is a ten page paper presented at World Library and Information Conference in August 2007. The paper defines tagging and notes how it is done by users of the system. Additionally, it describes several tagging characteristics for example user-oriented, empowering, democratic, cheap, collaboraitve, and dynamic. It discusses how several web based services offer tagging for example PennTags and John Blyberg’s in Ann Arbor District Library.
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From del.icio.us
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This is a line that I heard last night as I watched the premiere episode of V, the remake of the 1983 TV miniseries about aliens who pose as humans to disguise their identities as carnivorous reptiles. ABC is trying to encourage online fandom by plugging the "Peace Ambassador Program" and emphasizing the plot device that aliens are recruiting human collaborators by using the Internet to spread their propaganda. (Of course, the Internet is...
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From virtualpolitik.blogspot.com
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I have an idea for an essay that connects new services Twitter Lists and Gawker Forums. In one sense, these are merely extensions of tagging and folksonomies popularized by Flickr and Delicious. But there's something else going on here: tagging not just as taxonomy but as content generation.But I don't have time to write this essay, so someone please do it for me.(See also: Twitter, Outlines, Lists, Directories, Y!ou.)
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From fimoculous.com
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Third Street Software, Inc. has announced Sente 6.0, the popular academic reference manager for Max OS X. Sente 6.0 introduces a number of important enhancements, including synchronized libraries, hierarchical reference tagging, PDF markup and more. Originally released in 2004, Sente is in use by students, faculty and researchers in most major academic institutions around the world.
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From prmac.com
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I bet there is no standard to this, what a shame... I have face tagged all my photos at home now, but it doesn't look like Picasa stores the info on the person in the picture in the image file itself :-(
Here's a pic tagged with me in Flickr, this was not done automatically from the Picasa version though.
Oh it's because this is cutting edge... Yes I remember when we did geocoding by hand this way!
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From feedproxy.google.com
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Flickr, the popular photo sharing site, has added Facebook-like people tagging. The purpose behind people tagging is to easily tell people when you upload a picture that includes them. In short, it is a fun way to make your pictures more social and have discussions around your photos. Let me show you [...]
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From searchengineland.com
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