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Another paper submitted for the alt.chi 2007 conference. This comes from PARC and is a study of the del.icio.us website using metrics based on entropy.

Their results are interesting:

The efficiency of social tagging is decreasing. The efficiency of social navigation affored by the tagging system is decreasing Users overlap in places they visit more strongly than before

These results […]

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According to techdirt an English village installed “ignore your sat nav” signs, after truck drivers -blindly following their units- found themselves stuck in a 2m-wide road.

Some commendators place the blame entirely on the drivers, but it is not so simple: a voice instructs you to turn left, then to the right, then KABOOM!! When using […]

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