Archive for February 20th, 2009
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Thing 10: Tagging and del.icio.us
I love tagging in general and think it usually works well enough even without a controlled vocabulary. Folksonomies have disadvantages, of course, especially in their imprecision–users might get both horses and cars under “mustang”–but the advantage in comparison to cataloging with a controlled vocabulary is that people tend to use terms that most other [...]
