Discovery of similar interests

Trying to recall more about the discovery session.

We hit lots of conceptual approaches to how we do or could find and discover things.  The ’similar posts’ plugin, expanded to MU scale, got lots of discussion as an option.  Some of the nuances of how it works and its settings led to some interesting thoughts about how this also relates to digital literacy — reflecting on your writing to get the settings optimized.

Tags bad.  Fun discussion about the weaknesses of tags for discovery and organization.  That led us into examples of how searching/discovery works well, and we discovered that a triangulation of tags sometimes works.  From there, we got to different types of info  could be part of the triangulation — Jeremy’s post hits a list of that content.

A fantastic thing for me was that in that list we saw that these were different facets around which we define our communities.

Jeremy and I will have it all done and ready to present at next year’s wordcamped here if there is one, with guidance from Rob’s important point about the importance of a very good UI.  Easy.