Simpy Chichimichi

At the end of September (2005) I started a series of study-style posts about tagging and user behaviour, based on my analysis of Simpy data. The series is over, so I thought I'd post a summary of all topics covered in this single post.

We started, counting from 0, with Quick Study: Tag Use Patterns study, where we looked at different tagging styles/models. Next, we looked at tag/item (link in case of Simpy) ratios and published the Part 1: How Much We Tag report. We interrupted the serious analysis with an illustration of Evolution 2.0 of human kind. The next study, Part 2: Private vs. Public Tagging, looked at how much we want to share data, and how much we want to keep it to ourselves. It turns out most people like to share, but there is a significant number of private links. What is more, people invest more effort in tagging items they keep private. Next we looked at the timing of this so called Read/Write Web in the Part 3: Timing of Read vs. Write study, where we analyzed when people add information, and when they seek it. It turns out these two activities don't follow the exact same pattern. In the final study of this series, Part 4: Nocturnal Activity Pattern, I did some web log digging, to show the increase of night activity that stems from various crawlers, fetchers, feed aggregators, etc.