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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

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Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." Taxonomy won! Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post. Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post.

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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time.

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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. He emailed a link where they will be available for a few days.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

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The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. For example, taxonomy. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. We get 40 emails a day telling us what should go in ???politics???

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

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On the side, by personal email I was sharing interesting links, articles, and conversations with people who I thought might be interested. 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.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

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s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t 3) Links can get lost in email. (4) 3) Links can get lost in email. (4) Social Bookmarking. Act 1: The Problem. Act 2: Definitions.