Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a More Related Linking
I just added a little bit more folksonomical gubbins to the site.
From now on, each post will be accompanied by two sets of links. The first batch, titled Related, point to pages of my links at del.icio.us tagged with the same keywords as the post. The second batch, titled Similar, point to pages at Technorati which gather together recent posts from other websites tagged with the same keywords as the post.
Of course, the problem with user-defined tags being used to categorise content is that no one has any idea how everyone else is choosing to tag their content, so the Similar links might well end up leading to dissimilar content - I might, for example, tag a post about a New Labour pre-election policy announcement as ‘waffle’, which millions of Americans will be using to tag their posts about the particularly spectacular breakfast they ate that morning.
I’ll see how it goes, anyway, and, once I’ve worked a few tediously geeky things out, I might expand the extra linking to include a wee bit of interaction with Flickr when a post contains a photograph.
Click click, Hooray!
I’m tempted to try something similar with my blog, solely so that I can catagorise my posts and have a ‘catagories’ bit in the sidebar, but I think I did my bit for playing with del.icio.us already this week!
Posted by Mags at 8pm on 24.02.05
Personally, I just can’t stop playing with del.icio.us!
Interesting that you don’t have categories - take care when setting them up if you decide to: I curse the day I chose ‘Art & Culture’ as one of mine (duh, that’d be nearly everything!) but the idea of going back and re-categorising old posts (fast approaching a 1,000 of them) is too much to bear.
Posted by Jack Mottram at 7pm on 25.02.05