During a recent project, I had occasion to review the latest writings about folksonomies in general, and comparing folksonomies and taxonomies in particular. I’ve been a bit leery of a lot of the ...

Berkman Fellow David Weinberger has been giving a lot of thought to folksonomies while working on his upcoming book, Everything is Miscellaneous. In the following essay, he's written about the ...

Some think Technorati's folksonomy will get bogged down in spam. But others say it's a terrific system that brings together the tagging systems of several popular services. View Slideshow If the photo ...

One of the more tantalizing, if not confounding, innovations in how people share information on the Web has to do with a new process called tagging. Promulgated by a site called del.icio.us, tagging ...

The last time I renewed my mobile phone I spent ages looking for the traffic helpline. I eventually found it by clicking “Entertainment” then “Call Orange”. I then discovered I could move files ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "Blog", "netiquette", "cookie" and "wiki" have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the ...

This is a guest post from one of the world's leading taxonomy and folksonomy experts Thomas Vander Wal, who can be found at Infocloud Solutions. Thomas has very kindly taken some time to share some ...

In reviewing articles about folksonomies and taxonomies, I found that while there were some interesting experiments in combining the two, most writings repeated the same myths, folktales and ...