http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/update-tim-oreilly-on-search-engines-as-leeches/ a blog on tagging Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:32:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/update-tim-oreilly-on-search-engines-as-leeches/comment-page-1/#comment-534 Peter Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:21:34 +0000 http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/update-tim-oreilly-on-search-engines-as-leeches/#comment-534 Tim O'Reilly calls folksonomy "a style of collaborative categorization of sites using freely chosen keywords". But where is the collaboration, really? If I tag a link "cars" and you tag the same site as being about "autos", wouldn't real collaboration suggest that we get together and say "hey, in the future lets both use 'autos', so we both can find each other's links"? I have used Delicious, Furl.com, BuddyMarks.com, etc... none involve real collaboration in this sense as far as I have seen. Tim O’Reilly calls folksonomy “a style of collaborative categorization of sites using freely chosen keywords”. But where is the collaboration, really? If I tag a link “cars” and you tag the same site as being about “autos”, wouldn’t real collaboration suggest that we get together and say “hey, in the future lets both use ‘autos’, so we both can find each other’s links”? I have used Delicious, Furl.com, BuddyMarks.com, etc… none involve real collaboration in this sense as far as I have seen.

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