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  1. February 17th, 2009

    Perhaps it’s time for a crude taxonomy for social networks to help sort out the types of messages flowing back and forth? Imagine if all your tweets, facebook messages, and friendfeed streams came pre-tagged with the following tags or categories?


    * look at me, I’m doing something cool
    * check this out, it’s funny
    * books, movies, music, food, or sports
    * this is touching and will change your life
    * gadgets and meta, technology post about using technology
    * weather and the natural world
    * babies and kittens
    * my obscure hobby
    * breaking news, OMG!
    * make money now!

    Ian Kennedy

    I can’t decide if I like this idea or hate it.  Probably the latter.

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