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26 Jan 08
APML isn't just for humans* [BBC - Radio Labs]
Interesting spin on APML. First the BBC Radio Labs created Last.fm profiles for radio stations; now they're creating APML profiles for individual DJs as a way of of abstracting their tastes/selections into portable data.
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Michael from our team has been looking at this from an alternative direction. What if you could generate APML for a music radio show? That would be based on the music that the show or DJ has played and, by extension, has been paying attention to. So Michael has hacked up some APML feeds for some of our radio shows based on their tracklistings (warning - these are very beta and we cannot guarantee they are accurate or stable).
24 Jan 08
APML: The Next Big Thing or the Next FOAF? [Mashable]
Sceptical piece on APML that sees privacy as a major concern preventing consumers from embracing APML. But isn't the idea that, with APML, users own their own attention data, rather than having it locked up inside Flickr, last.fm, Google etc in a way that
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The concept of APML is that it allows you to share your “attention profile†data with other users, organisations or programs in the same way you might share your OPML file with someone. The most compelling reason I can gather why the internet world as a whole needs to line up behind the concept of APML because companies are already gathering so much data that used to be considered private and sacred, so we all need to get out in front of it now and define the process of gathering that information, and attempt - as users - to control a bit of that.
20 Jan 08
Tagurself
Via Paul Lamere - http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/tagurself
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Tagurself is a widget that displays your interests as a tag cloud. Give it a try - enter any webpage or feed url and click GO. Seperate multiple urls with a comma.
02 Aug 07
Miscellaneous isn't disorder (despite my book's semi-catchy subtitle) [Everything is Miscellaneous]
...And neither is anarchy
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That is indeed one of the weaknesses of the “miscellaneous†metaphor.
A truly miscellaneous pile consists of things with no significant
likenesses (outside of their all belong within a particular domain –
your kitchen miscellaneous drawers contains items that belong in a
kitchen and that fit in a drawer). The miscellaneous as I use the term
consists of a pile ever richer with relationships. That disanalogy
between the usual use of the term and mine (along with the inclusion
of the word “disorder†in the subtitle) have understandably led some
to think that the book advocates chaos. Actually, I’m enthusiastic
about exactly the opposite: The development of an infrastructure
super-saturated with meaning.
26 Jul 07
Tagmashes from LibraryThing [Joho the Blog]
Interesting development allowing you to search on combinations of tags - partly this was overdue, but the implementation brings something new as well.
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At LibraryThing, people list their books. And, of course, we tag 'em up good. For example, "Freakonomics" has 993 unique tags (ignoring case differences), and 8,760 total tags. Now, tags are of course useful. But so are subject headings. So, Tim has come up with a clever way of deriving subject headings bottom up. He's introduced "tagmashes," which are (in essence) searches on two or more tags. So, you could ask to see all the books tagged "france" and "wwii." But the fact that you're asking for that particular conjunction of tags indicates that those tags go together, at least in your mind and at least at this moment. Library turns that tagmash into a page with a persistent URL. The page presents a de-duped list of the results, ordered by interestinginess, and with other tagmashes suggested, all based on the magic of statistics. Over time, a large, relatively flat set of subject headings may emerge, which, subject to further analysis, could get clumpier and clumpier with meaning.
23 Jul 07
Meta-meta-metadata at Amazon [Jay Cross, Internet Time Blog]
Impressive but scary range of data on Jay Cross's book.
28 May 07
Seven Ages of Record [BBC Music Programme Guides]
How the web is complementing TV in 2007. This page will look very dated in another decade. Note the faux tag-cloud.
Everything is Miscellaneous [Google Video]
Video of David Weinberger giving a talk at Google. Great use of Powerpoint. Via Seb.
22 May 07
Metacrap - the metadata myth [Donald Clark, Plan B]
Nice concise summary.
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I have long believed that the standards police have been wasting millions (usually flying to long meetings in exotic locations) while the world ignores their blinkered schemas. Wonderful article from Doctorow (thanks again to Seb Schmoller) on why metadata has turned out to be a top-down, hopelessly utopian, mythical solution.
20 May 07
Find - listen - label: wiki radio [BBC Radio 4]
First public beta of annotatable audio from the BBC
Moody - Mac OS X app to mood tag your music in iTunes
Another iTunes plug-in -- my iTunes is struggling under the weight of those it already has, so I won't be installing until I upgrade my Mac. I'm also unlikely to be adding tags to another system.
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Moody is your buddy when you don't know exactly what you want to listen to. The times you would like to tell iTunes to just play me something soft. Or get this party started. You can play a shuffle from a genre, but a good mix is really more about energy than genre. With Moody you get streamlined shuffles in whatever mood you like.
05 May 07
Weinberger's Well-ordered Miscellany [ALA TechSource]
Review of David Weinberger's new book.
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Parcels of knowledge are no longer bound by “either-or decisions,†and can be in many places at once; knowledge does not fit into finite boxes or even have a shape; and--most disturbingly, though in Weinberger's hands, also most entertainingly--messiness is a virtue. He explains this point repeatedly but no better than in a section discussing Flickr, where automated and human-supplied metadata create “a mess than gets richer in potential and more useful every day. … Third-order messes reverse entropy, becoming more meaningful as they become messier, with more relationships built in.â€
05 Apr 07
New Algorithms from UCSD Improve Automated Image Labeling [Jacobs School of Engineering]
Interesting new developments in automated analysis and tagging of images
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Scientists have previously built image labeling and retrieval systems that can figure out the contents of images that do not have captions, but these systems have a variety of drawbacks. Accuracy has been a problem. Also, some older systems need to be shown a picture and then can only find similar photos. Other systems can only determine whether one particular visual concept is present or absent in an image. Still others are unable to search through large collections of images, which is crucial for use in big photo databases and perhaps one day, the Internet. The new system from the Vasconcelos team begins to addresses these open problems.
07 Mar 07
imeem! - social network for tagging and playlisting media
A nice-looking social network. via MuSick in the Head.
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imeem is an online community where people and groups can upload,
share, tag, and playlist the media they care about. There’s something for everyone: videos, music, photos, playlists, and blogs – plus it’s 100% free! Here are some of the things you can do on imeem:
20 Feb 07
When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing [LibraryThing's blog]
Interesting assessment of when and why people add tags.
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Both LibraryThing and Amazon allow users to tag books. But with a tiny fraction of Amazon's traffic, LibraryThing appears to have accumulated *ten times* as many book tags as Amazon—13 million tags on LibraryThing to about 1.3 million on Amazon. (See below for the method I used to find this out.) Something is going on here—something with broad implications for tagging, classification and "Web 2.0" commerce. There are a couple of lessons, but the most important is this: Tagging works well when people tag "their" stuff, but it fails when they're asked to do it to "someone else's" stuff. You can't get your customers to organize your products, unless you give them a very good incentive. We all make our beds, but nobody volunteers to fluff pillows at the local Sheraton.
31 Jan 07
Report on User Tagging on the Net [Pew Internet]
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Just as the internet allows users to create and share their own media, it is also enabling them to organize digital material their own way, rather than relying on pre-existing formats of classifying information. A December 2006 survey has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content.
08 Dec 06
Folksonomy as symbol [David Weinberger, Joho the Blog]
Weinberger on the cultural and epistemological significance of folksonomies.
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In the face of this, folksonomy says not just that we each have our own way, but that something like ours emerges from it. Folksonomies are proof of the power of emergence. Emergence is a fascinating phenomenon because it explains complexity through intrinsic simplicity. E.g., termites build complex towers by following rules so simple that they fit in a termite's brain. But there is also a political side to our interest in emergence, beyond its explanatory power. Emergence is hope. It says (or we take it as saying) that left to ourselves, without extrinsic structuring or regulation or governance, we will be magnificent. This is beyond the hope implicit in democracy, that says a group will be able to live together if all are given equal power. We won't just live together, but something far beyond the capabilities of any of us will emerge. Simply by being together, cathedrals will emerge
28 Nov 06
Music IP Projects
Directory of projects linked to MusicIP data.
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20 Nov 06
Beneath the Metadata - a reply [Joho the Blog]
David Weinberger replies to a critic of folksonomies.
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And I'll take one step further toward the metaphysical: Folksonomies are not only frequently more useful than top-down taxonomies; they better reflect the bottom-up, messy, ambiguous, inconsistent, social nature of meaning—despite Aristotle and the tradition his genius spawned.
22 Oct 06
There is no shelf. There is no file system. [Seb Schmoller on Clay Shirky]
Seb's introduction to a new essay by Clay Shirky (which I can't furl directly for some reason).
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"Today I want to talk about categorization, and I want to convince you that a lot of what we think we know about categorization is wrong. In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies.
I also want to convince you that what we're seeing when we see the Web is actually a radical break with previous categorization strategies, rather than an extension of them. The second part of the talk is more speculative, because it is often the case that old systems get broken before people know what's going to take their place. (Anyone watching the music industry can see this at work today.) That's what I think is happening with categorization.
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