[LINK] Surveillance Tag-Clusters

[Roger Clarke]

Doing some research on Web 2.0 preparatory to submitting a paper, I 
did some quick flicking around tag-clouds on flickr.  (I could call 
it empirical research, but 'familiarisation' would be a more accurate 
descriptor).

I tried 'surveillance', which generates some obvious, but also some 
less obvious clusters:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/surveillance/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/surveillance/clusters/

Following down:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/surveillance/clusters/streetart-graffiti-stencil/
I even found a piece of art I particularly like:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8020357@N03/481553696/

Disappointingly, it's only been viewed 73 times.

(Aside:  Did anyone else think 'Das Leben der Anderen' was a great 
film?  I checked with German friends, and yes it was as big there as 
it was in Cannes.  Oops - please don't answer that on-list!  But 
off-list is fine).

(Aside:  I tried to go to http://www.delicio.us/, to compare its 
metadata effectiveness, and to my amazement the domain doesn't exist. 
Am I the only person in the world who can't intuit where the dots 
belong in http://del.icio.us/ ???  (Result:  Compared with flickr, 
it's pretty boring).

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