After all,
everyone wants to be ahead of the popularity curve.
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In a tagging system you might track the popularity trends of resources (which ones
have been added) or tags (which are gaining and losing).
Both of these approaches can help users discover resources that are new and interesting.
It can also help people connect activity in the tagging system to other events in
the real world.
perspeCtives on popularitY
In addition to time and trends, we often want to know what??™s popular among different
groups of people. These different perspectives on popularity can help us identify the
things we??™re interested in??”or at least help us narrow down that stream.
Consider these four ways of looking at what??™s popular in a tagging system:
You. Understanding your own popularity trends can help you identify changes in
your interests and your information-seeking patterns.
Friends or contacts.
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