Google Image Labeler 0
talk about a lesson in folksonomy (or “social tagging”), Google Image Labeler pits you against someother anonymous labeller and together you collectively strive to generate labels for bizarrely random photos.
while this was a poor exercise in classification, it was a very interesting exercise in social googling. i felt compelled to “out label” my partner and whenever I got stuck thinking of words I was chagrined to see how many more labels they were generating than I. afterward, I got to see the labels my partner put forth — and how differently they compared to my own.
I am not convinced that this is a useful social tagging experience. but it was social experience, just the same.