{"id":3711,"date":"2005-02-10T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/abusing-folkonomies\/"},"modified":"2005-02-10T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T19:00:00","slug":"abusing-folkonomies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/abusing-folkonomies\/","title":{"rendered":"Abusing Folkonomies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had some thoughts this morning about how to abuse the whole folkonomy trend.  Concerns really, because I&#8217;m not sure these things haven&#8217;t already happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ideological wars fought through tagging.  Tag your opponent as &#8220;evil&#8221; or &#8220;wrong&#8221;, &#8220;liberal&#8221;  or &#8220;conservative&#8221; and have an army of information manipulators spread the tags through flickr, technorati and delicious.  Monitor the results, tweak and continue.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.micropersuasion.com\/2005\/01\/get_folksy_with.html\">Steve Rubel suggests that companies should monitor flickr<\/a> for how product mentions to gage public interest.  I say you could take the top 150 list on flickr and upload product images with those tags.  Be subtle about it&#8230;the restuarant coyly disguised as a family snap or the new product placed in that cheeky photo of Chicago&#8230;the possibilities are endless!<\/li>\n<li>Along the same lines, post photos of the president with a technorati tag for &#8220;right think&#8221; or &#8220;chimp smirk&#8221;, whichever.  Tell your friends!  It&#8217;s google bombing for 2005!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking my copy of 1984 and hiding under the covers.  Someone wake me when the semantic web is realized.<\/p>\n<p><i>Update! Others are concerned about this as well.  There&#8217;s an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/many\/archives\/2005\/02\/01\/tags_run_amok.php\">Many to Many<\/a> about delicious spam.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some thoughts this morning about how to abuse the whole folkonomy trend. Concerns really, because I&#8217;m not sure these things haven&#8217;t already happened: Ideological wars fought through tagging. Tag your opponent as &#8220;evil&#8221; or &#8220;wrong&#8221;, &#8220;liberal&#8221; or &#8220;conservative&#8221; and have an army of information manipulators spread the tags through flickr, technorati and delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}