Joho the Blog
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April 21, 2005
Confusability is scraping bloglines and noticing how people are categorizing feeds. Great idea. First results: A list of the 100 most popular categories. It shows the gap between the categories we use for ourselves and those we use for others. I have a category called "Web" for entries in this blog because within the confines of my blog, it's a useful way of sorting posts. But tagging a post "web" for retrieval within the wide world of resources would be pointless. We're either going to get more sophisticated in how we tag, or our computers are going to have to get ever more clever about reading lots of implicit and metadata to help us find what we're looking for. Or both. Posted
by D. Weinberger at April 21, 2005 06:13 PM
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I have already added a tab delimited file containg the top subscribers and a file of the top 10,000 categories used so that people can do their own analysis as I can't believe that I am the only person doing research into this.
It's interesting to note that "misc" is at number 10 in the categories list. But is't even more exciting that "knitting" is at number 37.
Posted by: Chris McEvoy | April 22, 2005 05:29 AM
I have now added some more detailed analysis on "net knitters".
Posted by: Chris McEvoy | April 25, 2005 05:19 PM