Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr

Ian@falsepositives.com writes "Lots of discussion going on about 'folksonomies' -- bottom-up taxonomies that people create on their own -- as used in Del.icio.us and Flickr: Adam Mathes has a thesis on Folksonomies; IFTF's Future Now makes a point about problems with folksonomies: no synonym control ( "mac" and "macintosh" on Del.icio.us); no hierarchy and content types; and only simple one-word tags. Joho the Blog notices a discussion about what to call it in Mob indexing? Folk categorization? Social tagging?, and John Battelle links into Taggle and "federated tagging". I wonder if a Google Suggest like system might reduce 'lazy tagging' ,and maybe synonym control when the federation appears. Tag, you're it!"

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Re:social mechanisms an synonyms

[Anonymous Coward]

I fully agree. In fact one may posit that given the socioeconomic juxtiposition of the blogoshpere, to wit, the social intertwining of the full fabric of blog/space/time, and given the propensity of people to form social bonds along racial, non-racial and sexual boundries throughout the ages, one can clearly see that the reinforcement you speak of should, given enough time, money, energy and encouragement of the blogmunity, blossom into a fant.ass.tic oppurtunity for those socio-economic classes which until now have been under-represented in more traditional forms of blogspresional media.