In Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain, Jakob argues “a neuron in your brain is a lot like a tag in a tagweb“. A tagweb is a network of tags whose edges are the “this tag is tagged with this tag” relationship, for example he tags the tag “Victoria” with the tag “female”. He states that it is not possible to tag tags on flickr but there is a workaround. If you tag a page that “represents” a tag, you are implicitly tagging that tag and you can do it with del.icio.us. I tagged some pages representing tags with the new tag “tag_the_tag” (metatag has already another meaning due to HTML). It can be a sort of wordnet but bottom up. I’m skeptical about the rise of “tagging tags” but, if this happen, then tag spam will be an issue. Jacob ends with “I now understand how my brain works, and I can act in ways that embraces that knowledge.” that really seems an enormous excess of “technology-driven optimism”.
[New word you find in the text: metadadaism (search for metadadaism and write metadadaism in wikipedia).]
[Note for myself: an online article with colorful pictures is more likely to attract attention (at least for me) but .mov videos are bad since I have many problems watching them on my operating system libre]