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Fun with Folksonomies |
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Folksonomies
help people organize their files, but they are also popular because
they are fun. People love to play with the serendipitous
browsing. Checking the clustered tags for "bush"
on Flickr can be both amusing and inform social commentary.
 Tag Clouds
is another fun side effect of folksonomies. These first
appeared
on Flickr, as alphabetical lists of tags in which the more commonly
used terms appear in a larger font size.44
Since then they've popped up in all sorts of
places, and even spawned a website, Cloudalicio.us,
dedicated to watching them evolve.GeoTagging involves tagging photos with geographic coordinates. GeoBloggers borrows from Flickr and GoogleMaps to orient photos on a map of the world. At this point in time, the text tag does not link directly to the world map, but this may be developed in the future.  Graphing
tag use. Grafolicious
will produce graphs of when and how many times a URL has been
bookmarked in Del.icio.us, as well as lists of all the tags
and
all the users connected to the URL. Misleading tags can lead to amusing results, but intentionally mistagging decreases the usability of folksonomies. Even legitimate tags can be fun though. A photo of a mannequin in a storefront tagged "swimsuit" shot to the top of my friend's "most viewed" list on Flickr, prompting our own amusement at this application of folksonomy. |
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