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CDB Entry: What We're Doing When We Tag

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:32:10 -0700

(with apologies to Meg's "What We're Doing When We Blog")... Discussions of "folksonomy" are meme-ing across the blog-space and I am disappointed that it is yet another round of issues being encamped in dichotomies. I am picturing something like a...

comment by: Liz Lawley

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:06:49 -0700

Of course we can, and do, have both...and will continue to. Go back and read my last paragraph, where I note that I want both. I was simply providing a counterpoint to what seemed to me to be an increasing trend towards a "taxonomies are dead, long live folksonomies" view.

comment by: Alan Levine

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:38:53 -0700

Yes, Liz I read that..., despite the sarcasmic tone, I was *not* disagreeing with everything you wrote-- and it was an through review and analysis of te ESP Game-- the only thing I disagreed with is that as an exmaple, it would not be the supreme one to poke holes in the folksonomy balloon, which has a lot of hot air right now.

I'm working on my nice adjectives going foward...

comment by: D'Arcy Norman

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:44:10 -0700

Alan, great post. Folksonomies aren't perfect, and won't make everyone happy, but they sure do make it easier for Regular People to add meaningful data about their assets. That's something that just wouldn't happen if they were forced to use rich/deep taxonomies to describe their photos of grandma slicing christmas cake...