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Liz Lawley

January 20, 2005 by Michael Boyle

in Many-to-Many: Social consequences of social tagging. Liz raises several issues related to tagging and other bottom-up classification approaches.

Interesting:

January 20, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Ta-da Lists. From the people that brought you Basecamp, the online project management solution.

To read:

January 20, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata by Adam Mathes.

Let no fellow nofollow, lest we all lie fallow. A cogent article on the rel=nofollow initiative from Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent. I diverge from him, however, in that my understanding that the goals of this initiative are not to prevent comment spam directly, but to contribute, in a small way, to reducing the potential value comment spam. I agree that the assumption that comment spammers do it because of page rank is dubious and the evidence to support the assumption is lacking.

Free Advice:

January 19, 2005 by Michael Boyle

if you win a million bucks on a TV show that 20 million people watched, live, it’s a good idea to report the winnings to the IRS!