Tagging for Katrina

by Alex on 9/6/2005

At the suggestion of Nancy White, I’ve just posted an introduction to tagging for people who are creating online resources for post-Katrina disaster recovery. It covers some suggestions for tag choice as well as overall tips on tagging. It’s online at You’re It.

Tagged as: resources

  • What an excellent application/instruction to harness web 2.0 content to communicate
    and share knowledge(blogs, bookmarks, photos), especially in the context of disasters
    (using the web in a communal way to help each other in times of need)...connecting,
    aggregating, and informing by "tag"...read/write web is really shining.

    RSS is great for notification, and even as the glue for distributed conversations...and
    tags are a great aggregator of user-defined perspective on life.

    I guess the important thing with catastrophies is to ride (monitor) the emerging tags of the
    situation, and quickly come up with a post, like yours, that sets some suggested tags so
    they can help to be aggregated in a few tags, therefore information is less scattered, and
    can be found...but I guess not everyone will read You're It!, so we do, in the end have to
    rely on the emerging folksonomy to tease out a few dominant tags the natural way.

    I guess the next step is using RSS to present or re-publish (pull together the information
    in the tagosphere) in a public aggregator blog or wiki, similar to nptech.
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