[Web4lib] folksonomics and tagging?

[William Denton]

On 21 October 2005, Catherine Lemmer wrote:

> Anyway, he mentioned folksonomies and tagging.  Can someone offer a 
> brief explanation of these?

Further to what the others said, let me point out Clay Shirky's great talk 
about this called "Ontology is Overrated:"

 	http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail470.html

He turned that talk and another into a paper:

 	http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

If you can spare the time to listen to the talk (it's an MP3), I recommend 
it.  It's entertaining and thought-provoking.

Bill
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