Folksonomic Zeitgest

Via Martin, I was having a snoop around the live public beta of The Observer Blog and I notice they have a "Folksonomic Zeitgeist" which "gives proportionate display automatically to those subjects which are getting most attention on the blog." The tags link to the inbuilt MT-Search for results, and are encoded into the page using Technorati's quirky rel=tag links. Individual post pages bring in related links from del.icio.us.

A nice thing they do in the 'contemporaria' sidebar is to give temporal context to the post by displaying the headlines & links to the top stories at Guardian Unlimited and the BBC at the time the post was written.

Posted by Paul in Folksonomy Tech at February 23, 2005 10:49 PM