Tags: tag tags

Jeff Pulver and tag tags
2009/2/4 (Wednesday) | Filed under: ported from old Blogger blog

I attended yesterday’s Breakfast with Jeff Pulver, billed as “the only breakfast with real-time social tagging”. This was an attempt to apply some of the practices of electronic social networking to the face-to-face world. It is in line with my own thoughts about “tag tags” expressed in a previous post. Jeff describes his process in [...]

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Origami conference tag tags
2008/6/5 (Thursday) | Filed under: ported from old Blogger blog

Here’s another cool tag tag application given to me by a friend who regularly attends the OrigamiUSA Annual Convention. So, as origamists(?) walk around and encounter one another in physical space, they display this structured metadata about themselves re: an origami project they would like to learn or teach. This sort of tag tag seems [...]

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About Tag Tags
2008/4/22 (Tuesday) | Filed under: ported from old Blogger blog

(Note: this is a little long, but I’ve been thinking about it for a while…) At many meetings or conferences, participants wear name tags. At a minimum the tag contains a self-written first name (perhaps preceded by “Hello. My name is…”). Or meetings with registered users may have name tags with pre-printed names, organizational affiliations, [...]

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