Tag clouds are the new mullets. “It is of course wrong to compare weighted tag clouds to mullets, mood rings, and similar instances of mindless pop-cultural detritus. Tag clouds are not dumb. Their smartness is why so many have rushed to use them. But ubiquity and repetition quickly turn sweets to ashes.”
Joshua Schachter,
the guy behind del.icio.us, has taken some funding and is going to work on it full time.
I’m heading out now
to see Ed Bilodeau’s talk on folksonomies at McGill’s GSLIS. I’m super-curious to see how he presents it.
Wired News:
Folksonomies Tap People Power. A growing number of websites with user-created content are relying on user-generated tags, also known as folksonomies, to let people know what’s available.
Louis Rosenfeld
weighed in on tagging and such in a good article on January 6: Folksonomies? How about Metadata Ecologies?. Read the excellent comments by Thomas Vander Wal as well.
