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		<title>Delicious Finally Lets Us Tag the Way We Want</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started using Delicious again after a one-year hiatus. I am impressed with the new interface. At first, I though they just reskinned the old design &#8211; lipstick on a pig, if we are still allowed to use that phrase. After using it for a week, I see that they have made a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am back on Delicious</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I left Delicious a year ago, I had two simple reasons. First, Delicious was painfully stupidly slow. Second, Delicious had obviously been abandoned by its developers, since it remained stagnant for the previous year despite all the problems. So I moved over to Ma.gnolia which was bright, speedy and engaged with their community. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Tagging (from the archive)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I taught a class on tagging for Vera Rhoads at the University of Maryland Graduate School back in 2006. It was an introductory-level presentation, aimed at covering the basics. Last year, I presented a similar presentation on classification, tagging and search. &#124; View &#124; Upload your own]]></description>
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		<title>Search Presentation (from the archive)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have given versions of this information retrieval talk for five or six semesters at Thom Haller&#8217;s USDA Graduate School class on Information Architecture. I always enjoy the class, since Thom attracts folks with an interesting range of experience. &#124; View &#124; Upload your own]]></description>
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		<title>Switching from del.icio.us to Ma.gnolia for bookmarking</title>
		<link>http://jamesmelzer.com/findability/switching-from-delicious-to-magnolia-for-bookmarking</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesmelzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use del.icio.us to archive the things I&#8217;ve read for later retrieval or for sharing. I use it to help manage to torrent of information coming across my desk (or phone) through email and RSS. It acts like a sort of supplementary memory so can I focus on other things. And on the whole, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tagging Tagging Tagging</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written anything substantive in months. Work, the holidays and so forth have kept me plenty busy. For a while now, I&#8217;ve been meaning to blog some of my thoughts on tagging. I&#8217;ve been gardening my tags for over two years now. I&#8217;ve watched others use del.icio.us and experimented with my own techniques. Two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collaborative Rank Top 100 del.icio.us Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I broke into the top 100 del.icio.us users this week, according to CollaborativeRank. Not much else to say &#8211; I just thought it was interesting to see how I slowly worked up the rankings (I was originally near the bottom of the top 500). Dang&#8230; I spoke too soon. It turns out that CollaborativeRank rankings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best of del.icio.us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching del.icio.us develop and flourish for while now. Ironically, the wisdom of crowds really isn&#8217;t all it&#8217;s cracked up to be. Maybe all web apps experience this same effect: the dark side of the long-tail. Users test out the app and abandon their accounts. Spammers flit from one account to the next like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metadata Mania</title>
		<link>http://jamesmelzer.com/findability/metadata-mania</link>
		<comments>http://jamesmelzer.com/findability/metadata-mania#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This individual used del.icio.us to tag a page with every unique term used on the page, or so it appears. Interestingly, in this case, the terms are generally illustrative and distinctive. But talk about bad cataloging practice. What&#8217;s the point of cataloging something with all its terms when we have full-text search?]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise Information Architecture in Context</title>
		<link>http://jamesmelzer.com/content-management/enterprise-information-architecture-in-context</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2005 14:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesmelzer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Content Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My work recently shifted from the comfortably concrete world of Web sites and portals to the cloudy conceptual world of enterprise information architecture. The folks I&#8217;m working with are in records management, enterprise architecture, Web, IT, and management. There are even some librarians in the mix. The various groups each speak their own lingo and [...]]]></description>
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