More on 'the Del.icio.us Lesson'
Joshua Porter, who coined the term 'the Del.icio.us Lesson', has gone to the trouble of further articulating the principle
What Joshua did by inventing the term is to encapsulate the root cause of tagging's success and and other social network effects.
I love it. Since his original post introducing the term I've been quoting it on a regular basis both in real-world conversation and on my blog.
In honour of the meme, here are my blog manifestations:
"Personal value>> Network effects>> Personal value"
"What's in it for the taggers? (the Del.icio.us Lesson)"
Corpus and the Anatomy of Words, Tags and Clusters
"a) tagging's primary use is for personal gain (bookmarking) with network benefits as a secondary (but very powerful) effect (the del.icio.us lesson)"
Comments
- Anonymous
May 03, 2006
Tagging, you just don't get it, until it adds value to your life. And even then you might not get it :) - Anonymous
May 04, 2006
Alex, love the manual trackback. Is that a feature of your software?
Also, the personal value >> network effects >> personal value idea is powerful, I think. That could be explored much further...
:) - Anonymous
June 09, 2006
About four weeks ago I made my way over to ZDNet's studios in San Francisco to be interviewed by Mike... - Anonymous
May 29, 2009
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