Rashmi Sinha has another nice piece on tagging, "A social analysis of tagging." I like the way Rashmi talks about the blurry line between the individual act of tagging and the social use of those tags.
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Rashmi Sinha has another nice piece on tagging, "A social analysis of tagging." I like the way Rashmi talks about the blurry line between the individual act of tagging and the social use of those tags.
Rashmi Sinha put together "A cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular)" that I found to be illuminating. The short version: tagging is a simpler process because it lets us annotate something with all the concepts that it fires in our brains. Categorization forces us to pick one of those concepts.