A lot of folks may have never encountered tagging prior to using Richmond Sunlight. Now somebody has conducted a study into the folksonomies (folk + taxonomy) that emerge from this process and found that the self-organizing behavior is based on some simple social and linguistic rules. (Via John Wills Lloyd)
Hee hee! How amusing that an article on naming, taxonomy, and identification has a mis-labeled image. (The picture of a pipe has the alt text “Picture of magnetic field”.)
More on topic, Clay Shirky has a famous piece on ontologies and folksonomies, but it is perhaps a bit longer of a read than most folks are willing to plunge into.
Posted by Tim McCormack on 31 January 02007 @ 6pm
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