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Moving my blog

OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog . Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:38 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

Tag, Tags, Tagging, Categorization, Classification and Laziness

Clearly a classic post on the topic of tagging, but I've not seen it before: A cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular) , by Rashmi Sinha : "The rapid growth of tagging in the last year is testament to Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 7:37 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Taglocity 1.0 for Outlook

I blogged about a tagging tool for Outlook 2003, Taglocity , when it went to beta earlier this year. Well, the team has released Taglocity 1.0 ! Congratulations to David and his team. Click here to watch the Taglocity screencast ' href="http://www.taglocity.com/" Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 4:29 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Enterprise tagging - off to the races...

TechCrunch outlines some of the features in a new product out there developed called ConnectBeam . It was just matter of time before someone ran with the Tagging behind the firewall idea. From the page describing ConnetBeam's benefits: Bookmark, retrieve, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 6:35 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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Coping with Information Overload (video)

About four weeks ago I made my way over to ZDNet's studios in San Francisco to be interviewed by Mike Elgan for DevSource and discuss a number of topics close to my heart. The video (15-ish mins) is now published. Mike asked me about microformats , tagging Read More...
Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 7:19 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments

Attention Clouds

Here's an attention cloud for you. az . "The Intention Cloud is a web application supported by Perl and AJAX technologies that gathers and displays the queries performed on search engines by their users in an intuitive output using weighted lists, also Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:29 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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More on 'the Del.icio.us Lesson'

Joshua Porter, who coined the term 'the Del.icio.us Lesson', has gone to the trouble of further articulating the principle What Joshua did by inventing the term is to encapsulate the root cause of tagging's success and and other social network effects. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:01 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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47% of all blog posts are tagged

David Sifry provides more Technorati stats , this time with a little more info on the tagging front. Turns out tagging is really kicking off. The number of posts with tags or categories has grown past 100 million mark since Technorati began tracking tags Read More...
Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 1:36 PM by alexbarn | 7 Comments
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Tag-centric UI

Matt McAlister has put together his first screencast showing some of the various tag-centric navigation systems he's found of interest. The examples he uses are good pointers to some of the emerging IA trends we'll see incorporated into more and more Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 16, 2006 10:08 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Solving Tag-Hell

Backup Brain recently highlighted one of the problems with the tagosphere - the 'which tag do I use' problem. I say 'one' of the problems, because there are at least three tagospheric problems that are creating a Tag-Hell: 1. When in content tagging mode Read More...
Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 12:03 AM by alexbarn | 23 Comments
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Professional tag gardeners now a reality (for now)

Earlier this month James Governor predicted that professional tag gardeners would emerge from the tagging eco-system. Today, Michael Arrington and Pete Cashmore (on Wednesday) report that p rofessional tag gardening prediction is now a reality . Michael Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 28, 2006 1:06 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Term extraction for tagclouds

Duncan MacKenzie : "I was playing around with Yahoo's term extraction service, as a possible path to tagging (this is the same service used behind TagCloud.com , for example), and I created this C# class libary with a sample app written in Windows Forms." Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 2:38 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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20 thoughts on Attention

I've been carrying a number of thoughts relating to Attention and rather trying to create a huge essay, I've decided just to offload these as a partially random list. Would be great to get your feedback, discussion, agreement and brutal rebutal. 20 thoughts Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:00 AM by alexbarn | 23 Comments
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My book tagloud

My book tagloud at Library Thing . Tags: Web2.0 , tagcloud , tag Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:06 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Search results relevant to who I am

Dave Winer has a simple, but very good idea . "A very simple idea for improving Google search and getting rid of spam problems all in one swoop, and it's not the first time the idea has appeared here. Let me tell you where my weblog is. Then it knows Read More...
Posted Monday, January 09, 2006 11:24 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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