Week 7

I've found this week's topic to be really intriguing.  I've only recently (well, within the last year or so) gotten into the tagging thing but really hadn't thought about it too much.  Though I realized it was a very social thing to do, I really didn't connect it to LIS at all and Lee Rainie's article really showed me the ways in which tagging grew up from LIS.  It seems only reasonable that it come back to LIS, too, in that sense.

Hi everyone,

I'm on physical vacation to Ithaca, NY this weekend, so I'm also going to be on vacation online.  See you next week!

This week's readings have helped clarify how bookmarking and tagging can be social. Knowing that del.icio.us tags are available to all users and understanding how that becomes social software is quite different. The idea that in tagging personal information people may unknowingly contribute to some kind of global folksonomy is fascinating.  I like the idea that social tagging and more controlled classification methods are complementary and can work together to minimize each other's weaknesses.