Waxy.org link to Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata which examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services – Del.icio.us and Flickr – designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.
and then there’s Taxonomy, folksonomy, tagsonomy from Joho the Blog, and Mob indexing? Folk categorization? Social tagging? from Peter Merholz.
ok, this is looking like the first meme of the year: via John Battelle we get Taggle and “federated tagging”. and in the mean time there’s Metadata for the Masses.
Tag, your it!
Following up on Tag’s, folksonomies, and Google Suggest