The trouble with font classifications | Clagnut § Design thinking · Typography
Richard would like your help. Take a few minutes to run through a card-sorting exercise to help classify fonts in a more meaningful way.
Tags: tagging
Museums and the Web 2010 – Machine Tags: Theory, Working Code and Gotchas (and Robots!)
Slides from a presentation on machine tags by Aaron Straup Cope. I highly recommend downloading the PDF for the bounty of links listed under "Reading List."
Flickr: Photos from Powerhouse Museum Collection
The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney—who have been doing some great stuff with public tagging already—have joined the Library of Congress in putting their photographic collection online for crowdsourced tagging.
Home of the Geotag Icon Project
An attempt to create a standardised icon for geotagged content, much like the standardised icon for RSS.
Flickr: The Commons
Here's a fantastic collaboration with the Library of Congress. We are being asked to collectively tag historic pictures with no known copyright restrictions. Wonderful idea! Are you watching, British Library?
Photos taken in Brighton on Flickr!
Flickr Places. This is what George announced at dConstruct. It's enthralling: interestingness mashed up with geotagging.
I work on the web.
Tim Lucas is using machine tagging to aggregate Flickr pics from the "I work on the web" meme started by Lisa Herrod.
Twitterverse
A new project from Idea Codes (Emily Chang and Max Kiesler): a tag cloud for Twitter.
Flickr: adactio's photos tagged with lastfm:event=97947
Yes, there is a reason why I'm using this machine tag. Watch the next release of Last.fm for machine tagging goodness on events.
Flickr: Flickr API
Machine tags will now be available through the Flickr API (that's triple tags to you and me).
www.steve.museum - Home
An experiment in social tagging of art museum collections
Powerhouse Museum | Sydney Australia
Fantastic collection of user-tagged content at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
Twitter / Rev Dan Catt: 10,000,059 geotagged photo,...
Via Reverend Dan Catt on Twitter comes word of over 10,100,000 getagged photos. Mazel tov!
Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.tags.getHotList
This new method in the Flickr API could be used to create some fun zeitgeist-driven mashups.
Thingtagging: Pictures of objects
Matt Bidulph is mashing up thinglinks and Flickr tags to create a Flickr/thinglink intimacy.
suda.co.uk/projects/microformats [Planet]
Planet Microformats: Brian aggregates blog posts, upcoming events, del.icio.us links and Flickr pics tagged with 'microformats' (which means this link will also appear there... I mean here).
REST web services interface :: Tagyu
As a follow-up to my post about Yahoo's term extractor, I should point out that Tagyu also has an API. It's RESTful and simple.
Folksonomy - New York Times
Daniel Pink explains folksonomies.
Slacker Manager: The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users
Well, it only makes sense that I'd post this to del.icio.us, doesn't it?
del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!
Yahoo! does it again. Now they've gone and snapped up del.icio.us.
Avant Game: the ministry of reshelving
Mobtagging: Discreetly move all copies of 1984 to a more suitable section, such as "Current Events", "Politics", "History", "True Crime", or "New Non-Fiction."