How would you pronounce web2.0ism (is it two point “o”, or two point “zero”?) Help appreciatted I am a spanish native speaker. About tagging -which can be called “taggism” too with no doubt for the strong belief on its attributes and frantic pratice- I agree with Simon above, tagging is fun, yet not reliable at serious level because each tagger (or “taggist” ) uses its own criteria… have you ever seen a reliable information sistem which uses millions of different criterias to classify data… and work? Definitely, this chaotic taggism nowadays should become or make room for an ultimate proper tags-onomy. |-)

Puns apart, I wanted to say Hi! to you. I´ve come to you for Esthr photos and a somebody pointed me to your blog´s biography. A kiss from Argentina, stay cool,

Gisela
The Alieness

Just a side note:

I’m reading somewhat of a common misconception in your posting about these ‘folksonomies’ in relation to their ancestor the ‘taxonomy’.

To me the biggest difference between the two is that the former indicates some sort of ‘emancipation’ Doing away with a format were only one controlling influence or treasurer is allowed to exist. To me the one-taxonomy just got replaced by a multi-taxonomy. The sure way to not end up in utter chaos is not to remove but rather decentralize and share the management responsibilities. So more then a technical achievement, I think this is the advent of a brave social positioning about responsibility sharing, quite like the spirit of Ubuntu IMHO

More philosophical sidesteps on the subject:
* the ‘test of independent invention’ form the axioms of web architecture’ over at http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html
* some personal associations posted a year ago: http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/archives/003309.html

kind regards,
-marc=

LaunchPad’s tagging system will probably be useful in a different way: providing an alternative, more flexible way of creating arbitrary “slices” across the dataset. It should be interesting to see how it develops.