After a successful CrashCourse in August 2005, Mediamatic is organising a 2-day workshop on social tagging, or MOBTAGGING, a non-hierarchical method of structuring information by freely applying metadata to it (see Flickr and Del.icio.us).

The aim of the workshop is to expose the inner workings and social effects of mobtagging: How is social tagging changing our attitude towards the processing and exchange of online information? For which usergroups and applications is mobtagging rewarding? How can we strengthen the advantages and weaken the disadvantages? Also, the practice of applying metadata to physical objects through RFID (see Triggered by RFID workshop) will be mentioned.
International speakers will present their work and experiences with mobtagging. Participants will get to (re)design and evaluate their own scenario/application.
At Mediamatic, Amsterdam, 15 & 16 February 2006.
Register . A full programme will be available soon. For questions, send an email to: workshops at mediamatic dot nl.