Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com

Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com: "A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about folksonomies — Web projects that let users “tag” items with keywords and create their own collaborative categorization systems. And to be sure, there have been plenty of folksonomic success stories. Sites like Flickr (which lets users post and tag images) and del.icio.us (which does the same for Web pages) have built up reasonably robust classification systems, and plenty of blogs — the Wired Campus included — now make at least some use of tags."