Berkman Fellow David Weinberger has been giving a lot of thought to folksonomies while working on his upcoming book, Everything is Miscellaneous. In the following essay, he's written about the ...

In reviewing articles about folksonomies and taxonomies, I found that while there were some interesting experiments in combining the two, most writings repeated the same myths, folktales and ...

We used to rely on philosophers to put the world in order. Now we've got information architects. But they're not doing the work - we are. There's a revolution going on in the art and science of ...

Some think Technorati's folksonomy will get bogged down in spam. But others say it's a terrific system that brings together the tagging systems of several popular services. View Slideshow If the photo ...

This is a guest post from one of the world's leading taxonomy and folksonomy experts Thomas Vander Wal, who can be found at Infocloud Solutions. Thomas has very kindly taken some time to share some ...

does it have to be machine readable from the start? the ontology challenge could be huge; for instance if you want to describe that a particular airplane journey provided wifi, how are you going to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "Blog", "netiquette", "cookie" and "wiki" have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the ...

Monster Hunter Wilds is not a dating sim, contrary to its Steam tag and user humor. Steam tags are a folksonomy, user-generated, and can be upvoted for more visibility. Gemma's brief appearance ...

During a recent project, I had occasion to review the latest writings about folksonomies in general, and comparing folksonomies and taxonomies in particular. I’ve been a bit leery of a lot of the ...