This link has been bookmarked by 39 people . It was first bookmarked on 27 Jul 2006, by Dave Morehouse.
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Altism MsitlaThomas Vander Wal
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A folksonomy is nearly useless for searching out specific, accurate information, but that's beside the point. It offers dirt-cheap, machine-assisted herd behavior; common wisdom squared; a stampede toward the water holes of semantics
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If so, the creation of unstructured taxonomies will likely sidle away from human users and toward machines; software will crawl over every image on the Web, count the tint and intensity of every pixel, pull in vague cues from the traffic statistics, and sort the mess.
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Ultimately no human brain, no planet full of human brains, can possibly catalog the dark, expanding ocean of data we spew. In a future of information auto-organized by folksonomy, we may not even have words for the kinds of sorting that will be going on; like mathematical proofs with 30,000 steps, they may be beyond comprehension. But they'll enable searches that are vast and eerily powerful. We won't be surfing with search engines any more. We'll be trawling with engines of meaning.
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11 Oct 10
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A folksonomy, on the other hand, arises spontaneously as Net users encounter information, think about what it means, and tag it with descriptive words. Then software makes the information accessible via a simple keyword search. The results aren't definitive or scientific, but they can be very useful.
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In Flickrland, the world is composed of Architecture, Beaches, Cameraphones, Dogs, Europe, Friends, Graffiti, Honeymoons, and on and on. Nobody invented this scheme, and best of all, it's an ongoing, democratic process. It's a product of group interaction, like footpaths trampled across a virgin wilderness by a herd of bison.
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A folksonomy is nearly useless for searching out specific, accurate information, but that's beside the point. It offers dirt-cheap, machine-assisted herd behavior; common wisdom squared; a stampede toward the water holes of semantics. There's room for scholarly smarts in this approach - for instance, you might invent a really cool term like folksonomy - but mostly, it's a new way to crowd-surf. It's as though you threw a kayak into a mosh pit and glided not just through Web pages but through labels, concepts, and ideas, too.
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18 Feb 10
Heather DimsonWhat's the best way to tag, bag, and sort data? Give it to the unorganized masses.
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Anne COrder Out of Chaos: What's the best way to tag, bag, and sort data? Give it to the unorganized masses.
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30 Sep 07
titusdamanThis is a Wired.com article on the nature of the term "folksonomy." The term that describes the web 2.0 explosion of tags and tagging of information.
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ken .Bruce Sterling (2005) - nice opening sentence: "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" - and Google link it up (a la news) - tags reflecting genuine intere
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David WarlickWe 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.
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John BanburyWe 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.
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Rachel CWhat's the best way to tag, bag, and sort data? Wired article by Bruce Sterling. April 2005.
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Lambert Heller"Folksonomy emerges from a combination of two inventions: (1) machines that can automate at least some of what it takes to classify information and (b) social software that makes users willing to do at least some of the work for nothing."
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mbouwkaArticle regarding folksonomy. Refers to social bookmarking. "folksonomy is nearly useless for searching out specific, accurate information, but that's beside the point. It offers dirt-cheap, machine-assisted herd behavior"
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Are HallandBruce Sterling om folksonomies i Wired.
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