Welcome to Tagxster.org

Welcome to the homepage of the Tagxster project. This website is the repository for Tagxster, a free Zotero-derived Firefox add-on whose main purpose is to allow for what I'd call "layman text exploration" by means of tags. Unlike a vast majority of sites and software, Tagxster does not rely on the collaborative side of folksonomies to achieve its goals but rather illustrates both the social and "idiosyncratic" usages that can be made of them, not so much to share documents but rather to get the better of the overwhelming amount of digital content made available on the Web by ever more powerful tools.

It is also the place where I blog on such things as are related with my philosophical thesis (philosophical and computer ontologies, folksonomies, digital humanities, writing, philosophy of language and philosophy of information, etc.). You can also contact me whether you've got any suggestions for expanding Tagxster beyond its current functionalities, in case you happened to contrive some new ingenious ways to use it you'd like to share or for whatever reason. Tagxster only displays a narrow set of rules and limits itself to suggesting how to make use of them : eventually, it's up to its users to get the better of these. This no doubt betokens the fact that I am no computer scientist myself. Just someone who saw in folksonomies a great opportunity to build a new kind of "machina memorialis" (Mary Carruthers) for this miscellaneous age of ours :

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      Conceive of memory not only as "rote", the ability to reproduce something (whether a text, a formula, a list of items, an incident) but as the matrix of a reminiscing cogitation, shuffling and collating "things" stored in a random-access memory scheme, or set of schemes – a memory architecture and a library built up during one’s lifetime with the express intention that it be used inventively. (my emphasis)  
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In the meantime, please do enjoy your visit.