The slideshow was presented in the style of a Pecha Kucha (Japanese for Chit-Chat). Pecha Kucha is a fast form of presentation where a very limited number of time is given per clip with the person presenting the clip having to fit all important information into the allotted time. The actual slides on the presentation should not contain masses of information in the form of text, but simple reference points and images.
The subject of our Pecha Kucha PowerPoint was Folksonomy, the result of tagging on a social level, which was coined by Thomas Vander Wal. We discussed the surge of tagging used on websites such as Flickr and YouTube.
'Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of information and objects (anything with a URL) for one's own retrieval. The tagging is done in a social environment (usually shared and open to others). Folksonomy is created from the act of tagging by the person consuming the information.' (Vander Wal, 2007)
An example we used was Flickr, the photo sharing website. People are free to upload their photos and add various tags; others may use the same tags creating a database of similar photos. This creates a Folksonomy.
In the presentation we also included so information on Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 including their differences and the developments the web has under gone over the years.
Collective intelligence is the sub-subject of the presentation; we briefly touched upon the phenomenon of collective intelligence in relation to Google and Amazon. Amazon stores the words you search on their site and the items you have bought as uses this information to suggest certain items that are similar. For example, if you buy a book from Amazon, they would suggest books by the same author and in the same genre, in a hope of grabbing your interest for another sale.
For more information view the PowerPoint.
Vander Wal, T (2007) Folksonomy [WWW] Available from: http://www.vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html
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