PUBLIC MARKS with tags tagging & about

... makes it popular) Thomas Van Der Wal: Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies Adam Weinroth: Tag Team Michael Wexler: I hate tags , I still hate tagging , I continue to despise tagging Mimi Yen: Hierarchy Versus Facets Versus Tags

I was thinking about bookmarks the other night and about how much they suck and about how much I hate them.

To investigate what words and phrases people associate with Web 2.0, I took a close look at two popular Web 2.0-ish articles and noted what tags people stored them under in del.icio.us. The first post was Adam Rifkin's fantastic Weblications. It currently has 99 people linking to it on del.icio.us and here is an excel chart showing the top tags:

* Misspelt tags (e.g., libary, libray) * Badly encoded tags, such as unlikely compound word groupings (e.g.,TimBernersLee) * Tags that do not follow convention in issues such as case and number; singular versus plural form (e.g., apple, apples) * Personal tags that are without meaning to the wider community (e.g., mydog) * Single-use tags that appear only once in the database. (e.g., billybobsdog)