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November 06, 2005

David Weinberger on Tags

Posted by Stowe Boyd

Early in 2005, David Weinberger, danah boyd and I were involved in an interesting project, called The Operating Manual For Social Tools -- something that might be thought of as the predecessor for the upcoming Symposium on Social Architecture. I recently came upon an interesting project called Groop.us (that I will write about later on) and they had a great quote of David's highlighted, having to do with the social vlaue of tags, a quote that I did not remember. It was actually in a post at the Operating Manual blog:

[from Operating Manual for Social Tools: By their tags shall ye know them]
Tags matter for social reasons. They allow the grassroots to create the way in which stuff is classified, instead of having to file things in pre-built categories. But the words we use to tag things depend on our intentions and our social context. Find people who tag items the same way as you do and you've now found a social group based not around shared interests but around shared wayas of thinking and shared ways of speaking: Communities of tags.

David is kicking off the Symposium, on the 15th, setting context and framing some of the big questions that we are trying to deal with there. It's going to be a great day.

[tags: David Weinberger, Symposium on Social Architecture, Operating Manual For Social Tools, tags]

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