The Unifying Organizing Function of #Tagging
Analog tagging

Source
Tagging's roots in online photo collections
Photo tags
#The Beginner's Guide to the Hashtag (2013) #hashtags
What's Tagging? (Lifewire, 3/17) or this one at Webopedia: Tagging
- "...bottom-up classifications which lack rigour..." (The Guardian |The Observer, 11/26/2005)
- A way to self-organize information (blog posts, bookmarks, notes, etc.)
- Social
- Searchable
- Also known as folksonomies or tagsonomies
- No promises of consistancy...internally or externally...
"Tough Talk about Tagging", a posting (September 5, 2007) from the Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus blog that includes links to a few recent reflections about social tagging in 2007. (There used to be a bunch of comments that were worth reading, but a reboot of the CHE site made them disappear...which is an issue in and of itself....)
Tagging | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
From the Pew Internet and American Life Project…later on, check out a few of their other reports… This report is waaay outdated, but still of interest. Do you use tags? Where and how?
Pragmatic thought as a philosophical foundation for collaborative tagging and the Semantic Web
For fun:
Make your own tagclouds via Wordle (demo video because it requires Flash online; now there is a downloadable version) or WordClouds (lots of options) or TagCrowd (provides frequencies)
Typical Content We Find on the Web
The usual stuff...
Blog Example: ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
An example of a group blog affiliated with a traditional media outlet (the Chronicle of Higher Education). Note the use of tags ("categories")
Update: Its gone independent, but archives will still be hosted on the CHE site. Find it now at http://profhacker.com/
Blog Example: OLDaily ~ by Stephen Downes
A great blog related to higher education and technology. Not via a corporate platform; he rolls his own..
WSU Pullman on Tumblr (a microblog)
A cautionary tale...
CNN article: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/health/aha-president-heart-attack/index.html
WSU - Academics: https://wsu.edu/academics/