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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

You’re it!!!

by Frank Paynter on January 31, 2007

Tagging is ever more commonplace, and the more tags are used the more useful they become.

The Pew Internet & American Life Project looks at tagging in a memo by Lee Rainie dated 1/31/2007. As part of Rainie’s analysis he offers a brief interview with the boss tagger himself, David (“Everything is Miscellaneous”) Weinberger.

Here’s the memo (caution, Acrobat required), by Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Pull quote…

A December 2006 survey has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content.

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