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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

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Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." I ran another googlefight using the word "tagging" instead of the Folksonomy and tagging won! Gavin emailed the note below and mentioned he will be summarizing all this on his blog. If one wanted to drive traffic to one's blog. Taxonomy won!

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

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The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

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Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. Blogs, photos, video, and bookmarks can benefit from the use of many tags when they are uploaded.

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Social Bookmarking Conversation Continues While Inventing New Words

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"An Offering to the PHP Gods" Alexandra Samuel just coined a new word, bloggespondence , for the back and forth conversation we've been having about social bookmarking from our respective blogs. Sometimes these folks also need a method to share their bookmarks with other staff members in the organization or at remote sites.

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

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The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. perspectives rather than institutional ones.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

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notes and David Weinberger's live blogging of the session.). The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. t be bookmarked. t use the word ???folksonomy.

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Dummie's Guide To Delicious and Knowledge Beginning With Misc.

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is a social bookmarking tool. I had used " Back Flip " back 3-4 years ago when I needed a web-based bookmark tool to publish my bookmarks from the semi-defunct Arts Wire Spiderschool. So, I was curious to see how bookmarking tools have evolved. For those of you are not ubergeeks ( I'm not ), del.icio.us