Super Taggers

The analysis of Technorati user tagging makes it possible to question the Technorati community in a new multifaceted way without anybody having to do any extra work, other than apply some very simple automated rules.

For example, from the ‘Medium of communication’ facet, a blog-reader could choose, say ‘Movies’ and ‘Movie’ combined with ‘Family’ from the ‘Personal’ facet and ‘Reviews’ from the ‘Point of view’ facet. The facets enable much richer questioning of the sources than looking down indexes, or random key word searching.

Looking at the analysis, it is impossible to miss the fact that ‘Purposely unclassified’ is the fourth most popular tags facet. Frankly, this kind of tag does not add a lot of value to the community. On the other hand, as part of a multi-faceted question injecting an element of ‘random’, ‘randomness’, and ‘Random elements’ might be desirable for those in search of serendipity.