Tagging

Brand Tags: the really effective tag cloud (May 14, 2008)
In my book I write about some of the trade-offs involved in making tag clouds. Whenever you have a lot of tags, tag frequencies usually follow a power-law distribution. A few tags are used lots of times; most tags are...

Categories vs. Tags in WordPress (Feb 23, 2008)
Two interesting questions came up in my Tagging 101 session at Northern Voice yesterday: "What's the difference between categories and tags in WordPress?" "They seem the same. Should I use them differently?" I didn't have great answers but a couple...

Tagging, the book (Jan 17, 2008)
So my book, Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web is finally done and available for order from your favorite bookstore: Amazon.com Amazon.ca (Currently #485 in books) Chapters/Indigo Amazon UK (only 2 left in stock!) Amazon Germany (#1 in Non-fiction...

Earlier Posts

Planning for Northern Voice '08 (Dec 9, 2007)

Another Social IA Workshop, October 20 in Milwaukee (Sep 20, 2007)

Hello Tagbot (a riff on Twitter tags) (Sep 6, 2007)

Is tagging stuck? Hardly. (Sep 5, 2007)

Sample book covers: what do you think? (Aug 30, 2007)

Del.icio.us to CSV (Jul 29, 2007)

The stream (Jul 15, 2007)

The Tagging Book (May 15, 2007)

Clouds evolve beyond tagging (Feb 2, 2007)

Taxonomy of tagging systems (Dec 18, 2006)

Do you have a tagging case study? (Nov 23, 2006)

A micro-study of tagging (Jul 26, 2006)

The Year in Tags (Dec 21, 2005)

Business value of tags (Nov 23, 2005)

Tagging tags to make synonyms (Oct 31, 2005)

Vander Wal on T'rati tags and cross-culture tagging (Oct 19, 2005)

Peter Morville: the Tagsonomy interview (Oct 19, 2005)