[IxDA Discuss] Is social tagging a success?

[Christine Boese]

Ah, that's the PoMo Tarot deck! I have that one!

Chris

On 11/19/06, fred.welden at yahoo.com <fred.welden at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >From: jackbellis.com <jackbellis at hotmail.com>
> >To: discuss at ixda.org
> >Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 9:09:26 AM
> >Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Is social tagging a success?
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> >Fred,
> >Very helpful insight.
> >Do you rely on, and succeed in finding, or filtering things via tags? Is
> it
> >an option of first resort, or just an occasional thing that occurs when
> >"flipping through the channels"?
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> The main use I've made of social tagging is in looking for images on
> Flickr for use in oddball personal projects--for example, a sort of
> Tarot-like deck of cards with modern iconic images.  So, where the Tarot
> might have "The Hanged Man" mine had things like "The Gun," or "The
> Librarian."
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> Flickr tagging worked really well for that.  Searches turned up images
> that might not actually BE guns or librarians, but they MEANT "gun" or
> "librarian" to someone, in some sense, which made them better for my
> purposes.
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