I saw a link to this in my referrer logs…
PennTags is the University of Pennsylvania Library's social bookmarking tool. I haven't added anything yet, but at first glance, it looks a lot like del.icio.us.
It has a feature called projects, which are basically folders for those who aren't folsonomified yet. There also all the goodies you'd expect from commercial social bookmarking sites, such as RSS feeds for everything, bookmarklets and even a Firefox toolbar (for bookmarking and other library tools).
This is the first I've heard of this, but a quick Google search reveals that this is at least 4 months old. I'll be the first to admit I don't spend much time at the libary (Whartonites are averse to any text not in Excel), but this is the first I've heard of it so they haven't done a good job of advertising it.
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I've added a weighted categories plugin that formats the categories in the sidebar a bit better than the simple categories list Wordpress comes with by default.
I was a bit skeptical about using tags on this blog because I didn't like that long list of categories, but I'm satisfied with this implementation of tags. The circle is now complete.
I've just installed Jeff Minard's modification of Edmundo Hidalgo's Cat2Tag plugin for WordPress to move away from the antiquated categorical organization system to a more flexible tag-based system. I've already been pseudo-tagging my posts using categories in the sense that I've been putting posts in more than one category, but I've been sticking to existing categories since I couldn't previously create categories on-the-fly while writing posts.
As the description for this plugin says, "It’s time to use folksomonies in our blogs, people."
Now if only there was a way to integrate the Technorati tagging plugin with this plugin…
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