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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We used to rely on philosophers to put the world in order. Now we've got information architects. But they're not doing the work - we are. There's a revolution going on in the art and science of ...

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 ...

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 ...