Yes? Maybe you should consider becoming a ‘tag whore’. Don’t worry; it’s not as wayward as it sounds.
“if you find yourself posting a photo whose tags end up being a story in and of themselves, then this is the pool for you. short tags, long tags, nonsensical tags, brutally honest tags, tagged tags -- no matter. as long as they go just a wee bit beyond "blue" and "sunset" and "macro," you'll do just fine here...p.p.s. there are two other whore groups -- color whores and texture whores. feel free to come join the ranks. heh heh. (what have i done?!?)” (Flickr 2010).
Click here to go to the 'tag whore' group pool.
Check out this example:
...and there's more that I couldn't capture! Extreme? I think so.
Members of groups like these have been frequently termed by scholars as ‘extreme taggers’.
The real issue here is whether these ‘extreme taggers’ are detrimentally affecting social bookmarking folksonomies. One of the only articles that I have found that is freely available on the web can be found here. This article provides a handy formal description of extreme tagging and presents the necessity of regulatory processes. The composers, Tanasescu & Streibel (2007) also present a prototype implementation which is pretty in depth and confusing for somebody like me who isn’t very well acquainted with semantic analysis. However, for those who are interested, it may be useful to know in advance that “Semantic Associations are chains of relations between one tag to another, or in graph theoretic terms, a labelled path between two nodes” (Tanasescu & Streibel 2007).
Based on the definition provided by Tanasescu & Streibel (2007), a screenshot of this page may be tagged with “computer”, “Web 2.0” and “folksonomy”. The tag “Web 2.0” itself may then be tagged (possibly by different users) with “internet” and “folksonomy”, and the tag “folksonomy” itself may be tagged with “tagging”.
One of the benefits of this type of tagging is that a tag which has multiple meanings will be ‘solved’ in the sense that every single possibility of its interpretation is canvassed. The user can then decide to filer accordingly.
As the name suggests ‘Tagopedia’ is an extreme tagging site, based on the top of Facebook platforms. Tag entries are based on URL’s. You can access more information on about 'Tagopedia"by clicking on the following link:
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