> 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,
Yep, that's what I'm arguing. However, I don't think the spilt is between ease of use and high relevance. There are lots of ways you could make del easier to use without giving first mover advantage to early taggers or, worse, machines. > 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. I'm not arguing for "true" meaning -- it's my sense that there is no true meaning that makes me skeptical of replacing your judgment about a tag with someone else's, and that skepticism applies a fortiori to judgments made by machines. > 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? It's different in that machines are dismal at understanding language. I think machine recommendations are going to be *significantly* worse than anything you could do on your own. > 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. Pietro's Ajax example is a real-world version of this thesis. http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/28/tagclouds-and-cultural-changes/, grep "Rapid Cultural Changes." > 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. There's also not enough intelligence in machines to do so. -c > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
