It seems that some people want an easier-to-use input system, while Clay Shirky seems to argue for harnessing the creativity of human minds for highly relevant catagorization. Shirky might as well argue for deleting the del.icio.us/new interface with the Recommended and Popular tags, and forcing the user to categorize the URL/link without any aid at all, so that the precious tags don't stray from their "true" meaning.
Delicious is one way for storing my links to information the way I percieve it, with my vocabulary. So what if a prepared recommendation fits my vocabulary? Most of the time it won't. How is a mechanical recommendation different from a groupthink, "organic" recommendation? Poking a hole in my argument, I suppose this recommendation system is hindsight reactionary. It doesn't help when a new vocabulary word is created. Jumping back to Scott Villarosa original topic, which is "Recommended tags based on a site's URL", I don't think there's enough information in most URLs to recommend meaningful tags. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
