The Tagging Book
Update: The book is done. More details are available in this post.
Big news: I'm writing a book on tagging for Peachpit/New Riders (they publish other fine titles like Designing with Web Standards, Communicating Design and Designing for Interaction).
I've been working on the book deal for the past couple of months, rewriting proposals and taxing friends with requests for advice. Now--finally, finally, finally--the contracts are signed and I can officially talk about it.
I don't have much to say, though, except that I'm really excited. And a bit nervous. Okay, I'll share this: it's turning into an inside-out book--it focuses on tagging but pulls in interesting information from psychology, linguistics, information architecture, library science and other fields. And I'm trying to make the sections on how and why people tag evidence-based, as much as that's possible.
I hope to finish writing over the summer and have the book out in the fall. (Cue laughter.) We'll see how that goes.
