Comments on: Web2Con: Popularity Decay in Tagging http://bokardo.com/archives/web2con-popularity-decay-in-tagging/ A Blog about Social Web Design Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:54:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tag decay « The Nascent Librarian http://bokardo.com/archives/web2con-popularity-decay-in-tagging/#comment-178085 Tag decay « The Nascent Librarian Wed, 28 May 2008 20:56:08 +0000 http://bokardo.com/?p=236#comment-178085 [...] older, obsolete tags to fade into irrelevance automatically. If I write on this again, I may follow Joshua Porter’s lead and refer to the the other phenomenon as “popularity decay”, for clarity. [...] [...] older, obsolete tags to fade into irrelevance automatically. If I write on this again, I may follow Joshua Porter’s lead and refer to the the other phenomenon as “popularity decay”, for clarity. [...]

]]> By: InfoSpaces » Blog Archive » The next tag cloud http://bokardo.com/archives/web2con-popularity-decay-in-tagging/#comment-6588 InfoSpaces » Blog Archive » The next tag cloud Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:15:33 +0000 http://bokardo.com/?p=236#comment-6588 [...] Popularity Decay [...] [...] Popularity Decay [...]

]]> By: WordWorks » In search of the perfect Tag Cloud http://bokardo.com/archives/web2con-popularity-decay-in-tagging/#comment-3330 WordWorks » In search of the perfect Tag Cloud Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:18:21 +0000 http://bokardo.com/?p=236#comment-3330 [...] Another problem with tag clouds is that their data displaying ability is limited by the screen size. Why would this be a problem? Well not everyone who searches the tagosphere is looking for cool links. I, in particular am, looking for information on something that happened say a few months ago and the topic wasn’t even “hot” so to speak. Now I have a problem. Most of the sites that display tag clouds are fixated on displaying the flavour of the month, or the tags that hog the screen are the ones that are currently popular. Related to this is the phenomenon of “tag decay“. I quote Joshua Porter on the subject of popular tags : One of the major problems with popularity is that popularity breeds popularity. When something gets popular enough, it is introduced to newer, wider audiences. These audiences, unaccustomed to the new idea, keep it popular. Unfortunately, these cycles tend to be too long: new things that become popular on a wide scale drown out those newer ideas that are still on the small scale, waiting their turn at the big time. These smaller ideas might be just as valuable as the popular ideas, they just haven’t had their chance to shine. Those folks who already know about the popular idea and are waiting for the new idea are out of luck. [...] [...] Another problem with tag clouds is that their data displaying ability is limited by the screen size. Why would this be a problem? Well not everyone who searches the tagosphere is looking for cool links. I, in particular am, looking for information on something that happened say a few months ago and the topic wasn’t even “hot” so to speak. Now I have a problem. Most of the sites that display tag clouds are fixated on displaying the flavour of the month, or the tags that hog the screen are the ones that are currently popular. Related to this is the phenomenon of “tag decay“. I quote Joshua Porter on the subject of popular tags : One of the major problems with popularity is that popularity breeds popularity. When something gets popular enough, it is introduced to newer, wider audiences. These audiences, unaccustomed to the new idea, keep it popular. Unfortunately, these cycles tend to be too long: new things that become popular on a wide scale drown out those newer ideas that are still on the small scale, waiting their turn at the big time. These smaller ideas might be just as valuable as the popular ideas, they just haven’t had their chance to shine. Those folks who already know about the popular idea and are waiting for the new idea are out of luck. [...]

]]> By: Pete Cashmore http://bokardo.com/archives/web2con-popularity-decay-in-tagging/#comment-1655 Pete Cashmore Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:15:15 +0000 http://bokardo.com/?p=236#comment-1655 Hey Josh - looks like you changed your blog design - nice! I think flickr gets it right with the popularity problem, and I hope others will follow their lead. Hey Josh - looks like you changed your blog design - nice!

I think flickr gets it right with the popularity problem, and I hope others will follow their lead.

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