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Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web

by Gene Smith
December 2007
Beginner to intermediate
216 pages
4h 39m
English
New Riders
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Acknowledgments

In many ways this book grew out of the conversations and presentations I’ve shared with friends at information architecture and user experience conferences. Thomas Vander Wal, Rashmi Sinha, Peter Morville, and Peter Merholz come to mind immediately, but there are many others.

I’m grateful to the people I interviewed for this book: James Melzer, Alex Wright, David Weinberger, Tim Spalding, David Millen, Mike Migurski, Peter Van Dijck, and Timo Hannay. Tom Coates, Moritz Stefaner, and Jane Murison generously contributed their work, and I’m honored to have it.

Several people gave me the encouragement I needed to start writing a book: Christina Wodtke, Lou Rosenfeld, and in particular Liz Danzico who read early outlines and connected ...

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