Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

He was pleased again to hear about the nptech, too. For example, taxonomy. Technorati Use of Delicious Tagged Items. Right now Technorati picks up the RSS for a tag. For example, we get 15 million hits a day and only 1 million were hits from Technorati. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 berkman

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

A message can derive from any of the following: an updated web site, a newsletter, a mailing list, an RSS item, a recommendation form, some personal email, newsgroups, and web based discussion groups. As for social bookmarking, it's a great first step in the direction of emergent taxonomies. Technorati Tags: nptech.

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