Episode #55 of STODID

This interview features, Terrell Russell who is a Ph.D. student at SILS at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Terrell's research involves a number of projects that relate to digital identity. For example, Terrell and Fred Stutzman started claimID in response to a perceived need for people to have a voice in what is being said about them online.

This interview features Terrell's work related to Contextual Authority Tagging, which Terrell describes as the use of folksonomy to discover and define cognitive authority through reputation within communities of users.

I originally learned of Terrell's work through Eugene Eric Kim's blog, quoted below:

"What was he doing that I found so compelling? It was his Ph.D. research on ContextualAuthorityTagging. The basis of the idea is simple: The best way to identify an authority on a topic is not to ask people to self-identify themselves as such, but to ask others to identify the people they consider to be the authorities. We can leverage this principle to locate expertise by building tagging systems where users tag other users with information about their expertise.    (LWT)"

Terrell asked me to mention that he will be attending SXSW when this podcast is posted so if anyone interested in his work will also be attending be sure to get in touch with him.

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