Confusability is scraping bloglines and noticing how people are categorizing feeds. Great idea. First results: A list of the 100 most popular categories. It shows the gap between the categories we use for ourselves and those we use for others. I have a category called “Web” for entries in this blog because within the confines of my blog, it’s a useful way of sorting posts. But tagging a post “web” for retrieval within the wide world of resources would be pointless. We’re either going to get more sophisticated in how we tag, or our computers are going to have to get ever more clever about reading lots of implicit and metadata to help us find what we’re looking for. Or both.

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