You’re It contributor Gene Smith posted a fascinating study of physical tagging habits from this year’s IA Summit (A micro-study of tagging) on his Atomiq blog.

Not surprisingly, a few of the contributors to this blog (Don, Peter, myself) are found to have conceivably “overthought” things a bit, presenting variations on the tag cloud concept that people find as confusing with ink on paper as they do in the sidebar of many a website.

I’ve been meaning to post a link to Blogoforum since founder Denis Krukovsky alerted me to it. The site describes itself as a “Web 2.0 tag-based folksonomy blog+forum” so it’s fully buzzword compliant.

The site also uses the tagline “Employ the power of many.” (That’s one way to get my attention: refer directly to the title of my book in your conceptual branding.)

Denis suggests that his tag-based approach to a forum eliminates the need for subforums.

Other interesting features include the fact that any comment can be treated as a discussion starting point and the creation for each contributor an author-centric stream of their posts in the form of a blog, as an attempt to leverage the sense of ownership and responsibility that inhere more closely to traditional blog posts than to scattered forum participation.