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A del.ico.us introduction to social bookmarking and tagging
The del.icio.us site recommends three common uses of this social bookmarking tool...
- To keep links to your favorite articles, blog posts and other web resources and access them from any computer on the web.
- To share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues (some of whom you've never met).
- To discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite. Monitoring key tags guarantees a steady flow of notable resources.
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del.icio.us activity:
- Go to http://del.icio.us
- Login with the workshop account - username: CARNetWorkshop (password will be given out in-session)
- Identify 3 or 4 webpages, resources, news articles, etc... that have stoked your interest in attending this workshop.
(If you are stuck, you might browse here, here, or here.)
Be sure to tag each item promiscuously, even perversely.
Folksonomy: tagging by the masses
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What's all the excitement about those tags? This deceptively simple technique is at the core of the tool's power and its popularity. And they are the foundation of the controversial notion of Folksonomy.
Benefits of folksonomies:
- "they dramatically lower content categorization costs because there is no complicated, hierarchically organized nomenclature to learn. One simply creates and applies tags on the fly."
- "folksonomies are inherently open-ended and can therefore respond quickly to changes and innovations"
- "Folksonomies therefore convey information on multiple levels, including information about the people who create them, and they therefore invite human engagement."
Criticisms of folksonomies:
- "words [may] have multiple related meanings; for example, a window can be a hole or a sheet of glass"
- the same things may be described by different words: ie blog, blogs, weblog, web log
- inherently idiosyncratic, open to abuse
More intertwingley goodness:
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- Via the del.icio.us javascript functionality, you can republish your del.icio.us items (or your tag cloud) on any web site (or course environment). -- We have a little surprise in store on that front... but you'll just have to wait to see what it is.
- The open API allows developers world-wide to integrate their applications with it, often creating new functionalities: tag visualisation, imaged tags, tag clustering, and tracking live activity across the system (here too)...**
- Naming Frenzy: mobilicio.us, digglicious, safarilicious, ar.icio.us, txp.icio.us, extisp.icio.us, trendalicious, taga.licio.us, avar.icio.us, nutr.itio.us, WordPre.cio.us], [MySQLicious, sid.vicio.us, gre.gario.us, foaflicious, spid.ero.us, fac.etio.us, off.icio.us/... and more at Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tools Collection
Flickr - photo sharing and social software yumminess
| http://static.flickr.com/10/13250237_1a49b5a7a3.jpg | Flickr is arguably the world's most successful 'Web 2.0' application. Its founders were recently named to Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people...
Why the hype?
Lots of great Flickr hacks (that open API again!)Tag Related Browsers, Mappr, Clockr, Postcard Browser, Vancouver Map, Montager, Spell With Flickr, Colr Pickr, delivr.... More at Flickr Bits and Great Flickr Tool Collection. |
Flickr/Blog/Creative Commons Activity: Where should we send Brian?!
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- One of our favorite Flickr hacks is Flickrlilli, which enhances Flickr's search capability by focusing on its Creative Commons licensed images.
- Log in to Flickr], with the username "objectseh@yahoo.ca" password: "canada"
- Take Flickrlilli for a spin! Perform searches on some terms of interest. (Hint: select the "interestingness" radio button)
- You can also search for CC licensed items in Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/
Once you are comfortable with searching the Flickr site, we want to put you to work. Brian has a small problem. He has 4-5 days to spend in Croatia after this workshop, and he does not know where to go. Or how to go. Or anything. Apparently, Croatia has a lot of beautiful, wonderful places to visit, but how can he possibly decide where to go? Your task is to help Brian by finding an image of a place you think he should visit using the Flickr site.
- When you find an image you like, use it as the basis of the a blog post using that handy "Blog this" button
- Write an entry to Brian describing why he absolutely must go to visit the most beautiful, amazing place you've chosen in Croatia. Once you have blogged your image, you may want to visit the Flickr Freakout Party Zone to see what some of your colleagues have chosen. Pick one of their postings and leave a comment, particularly if you have something to add or want to offer a different perspective on a place.
- Note: if you have created a Flickr account for yourself, you can enable this feature on your own weblog by going to Flickr's blog integration page.
- Optional: choose an image in the Objects, Eh? pool and play with the annotation and tagging features.
- You can refer to How To Flickr for help and more tips.
Hey! Look at all the work we did!
