RSS and tagging are key to p2p collaboration over the Internet. Tags allow people to organize the information available through their distributed networks in ways that are meaningful to them, and social networking enables nodes in these networks to interact with each other according to how these tags and other folksonomic data overlap. When productive tags are identified, then RSS is used to monitor where web artifacts using those tags are accumulating, or being aggregated. This presentation will explore some of the ways that tagging can be used productively by people wishing to locate one another in order to discover more about each other's cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The WritingMatrix project will be used as an example of how basing interaction on tagging has enabled students in various parts of the world to interact with one another in the ways suggested here.

1. RSS, Tagging, and Collaboration Online Vance Stevens Petroleum Institute Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 4th Inter-college Conference on Technology and Multiculturalism Presented Online February 13, 2008

4. Example of Google Reader Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008 http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html

6. Example of Technorati search on writingmatrix Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008 http://technorati.com/search/writingmatrix?authority=n&language=en

7. Example of Pageflakes Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008 Blogging4educators: http://www.pageflakes.com/Blogging4Educators Writingmatrix: http://www.pageflakes.com/vancestevens/13487192 /

9. Tags and Folksonomies (vs. Taxonomies) Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008 Dewey Decimal System Top-Down Client-Server structured information dissemination network Precise Predictable Inflexible Folksonomy Bottom Up Peer to Peer Ad hoc information dissemination network Sloppy Unpredictable Creative comprehensive adaptable

11. Example of Social Bookmarking with del.ciou.us Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008 http://del.icio.us/vancestevens/multiliteracies

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