Another discusion on how we are going to manage all the data on the internet.
This kind of tagging allows for the kind of multiple, overlapping associations that the brain itself uses, rather than using rigid categories. Such flexibility in using tags is both good and bad. On one hand we have tags like ‘blog’ and ‘blogs’ appearing as different tags. On the positive side, a photo of a smiling baby might be tagged ‘baby’, ‘happy’ and ‘cute’. So in effect folksonomy produces results that more accurately reflect the population’s conceptual model of the information.
