[Tagdb] Tag Planet?

[Colin Viebrock]

Oh well.  :)

For anyone who's interested, a working example using del is here:

	http://tagschema.viebrock.ca/

- Colin




On 13-Dec-05, at 3:43 PM, Nitin Borwankar wrote:

>
> Otis,
>
> Thanks for the update on Simpy - I asked a similar question so I'll  
> save you "the parrot ...".
> Given this info about Simpy's capabilities my preference would be to  
> go with Simpy rather than del.
> I'll let others chip in and we should come to a consensus shortly as  
> this is a badly needed service.
> I agree that polluting the tag space is not the best way to go.
> So do you want to show us how it's done, set up a group, etc.?
>
> In other news, I bought a copy of your (and Erik's) excellent Lucene  
> book .....
> Good stuff.
>
> Nitin.
>
>
>
> ogjunk-tagdb at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Hello Philipp,
>>
>> --- Philipp Keller <phred at citrin.ch> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi there..
>>>
>>> Lately I read an (ahem) very positive remark about my blog:
>>> "Philipp's
>>> writings offer what is badly needed in most blogs on
>>> tagging/"folksonomy"/social software/"Web 2.0" issues: substance."
>>> [1]
>>>
>>
>> I agree with that (I did read your post about tags from the other day,
>> but have been to busy to respond properly).
>>
>>
>>> and I stumbled on an article on 37signals about if we should put
>>> comas
>>> or spaces to separate tags (and this article gained quite a bit of
>>> popularity..), I thought: "don't we have more interesting things to
>>> talk
>>> about?"
>>>
>>> I think there's a lack of a point/website/rss-feed where the good
>>> articles about tagging come together. Tagging has so many facettes
>>> that
>>> are so interesting but it's a pity the good articles don't get as
>>> much
>>> attention as they'd need. Plus: I don't want to miss the good
>>> articles
>>> about tagging. I subscibed to del.icio.us/popular/tagging but it  
>>> doesn't solve the problem.
>>>
>>> Now, I thought about possible solutions:
>>> 1) A thing like Planet RDF [3]: A site that consists of posts from a
>>> few
>>> blogs that concentrate on tagging. I suppose such sites are pretty
>>> common..? The downside: bad signal/noise ratio
>>>
>>
>> It's too much information for the busy me, but this is kind of related
>> - http://planetweb.com/
>>
>>
>>> 2) A clipping blog that is mostly fed with quotes from good articles
>>> and
>>> small reviews about good tagging articles, sort of "why should you
>>> read that article"
>>>
>>
>> That's what Simpy Groups are very good for - 1) bookmark the link, 2)
>> tag it, 3) add the "why should I read that article"
>>
>>
>>> 3) A common tag in del.icio.us or simpy (let's support the list
>>> contributors) like for:lists.tagschema.
>>>
>>
>> I don't like "for:" business.  It polutes the "tag space".  Again,  
>> this
>> is what Simpy's Groups are very good for.  Save a link, tag it, check  
>> N
>> Groups that you want to share it with, and tags remain nice and clean.
>>
>>
>>> I think it would be important to have a shared knowledgebase. Not
>>> just a
>>> single person thing, that's why I address this here on this list.
>>>
>>
>> I don't want to sound like a parrot, but... :)
>>
>>
>>> On the
>>> other hand I don't want to have the "tag kids" posting. I don't want
>>> to be informed about the 1354th tagging-site's opening.
>>>
>>
>> Me neither.  Parrot reference again....
>>
>>
>>> I like option 2) the best but option 3) would be the easiest one..
>>>
>>> Do you have any suggestions?
>>>
>>
>> I haven't read others' replies, but I can certainly recommend Simpy
>> Groups for this type of work.  That is what they were designed for -
>> collaborative bookmarking, research, etc.  I have a few groups, some I
>> share with several people who are into Social Bookmarking, and I even
>> have one I share with my wife for some stuff that's important to us.  
>> :)
>>
>> Groups support collaborative bookmarking+tagging, and it sounds like I
>> should add some Wiki/Notes/Messaging features.... yes/no?  Would that
>> work for you here?
>>
>> Otis
>>
>>
>>> greets
>>> Philipp Keller
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/002103.php
>>> [2]
>>>
>>>
>> http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/ 
>> tag_formats_cant_we_all_just_get_along.php
>>
>>> [3] http://planetrdf.com/
>>>
>>
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