i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

“When a tiger dies, it leaves its skin behind. When a person dies, he leaves his name behind.” Chinese proverb

As you know, we die someday. We will leave what we had, made and used. Nowadays, we are living on the web as well as physical world. On the web, we not only meet friends and family, also make a new friends. More works are done by and seen on the web. What is not on the web is sometimes regarded as even not existing. Then, what will happen to “my existence on the web” after I died?

To illustrate the point that Bob made in class about tagging and controlled vocabularies, you may want to take a look at SociallyDelicious. Prateek, Yo-Shang and I created this tool last year in IOLab. The main idea is to see show people tag bookmarks in del.icio.us and whether their tagging behavior is influences by their level of expertise.