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Long live pointless user tags, such as these
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
FUN FACT
For a little paper I'm writing about user tagging, I was looking at some of the tags applied to Dan Brown's new novel The Lost Symbol. The best by far is that he has been dubbed by someone "the jimmy buffet of literature" [sic] While the point is valid, it might carry more heft if Buffett were spelled correctly.
In conclusion
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Long live pointless user tags, such as these
In conclusion
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i always thought of dan brown as the
ReplyDelete"thomas kincaid[sic]...painter of light"
of literature.
what was that rush song that you based that on again?
There is a Rush song, called "Spirit of the Radio" with the following lyrics:
ReplyDeleteInvisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback, on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price - almost free
Thomas Kinkade, self-described, and trademarked no less, himself as the "Painter of Light"
He is quite the tool, so he, Jimmy, and Dan should all hang out. I do bet they are all parrot heads
I've heard Deepak referred to as the Jimmy Buffett of combinatorics.
ReplyDeletealso, what user tags are you talking about? on the internet?
ReplyDeleteYeah D, I sort of missed it on the first read...probably the whole blogging at 1 AM.
ReplyDeleteI was comparing the way various sites control or do not control user tagging, and what a user can tag, such as all content, or only their own content. Amazon has no parameters whatsoever, so it is terrible. Flickr, Blogger, and Librarything do far better jobs, by giving more in the way of suggestions. Librarything also combines similar terms, i.e. masons, mason, and freemason would all be collected into the term freemasons.
Controlled vocabularies are very underrated.