Folksonomy : social classification - a great neologism (coined by Thomas). Thanks for posting it Gene.

(Aside: I think the lack of hierarchy, synonym control and semantic precision are precisely why it works. Free typing loose associations is just a lot easier than making a decision about the degree of match to a pre-defined category (especially hierarchical ones). It's like 90% of the value of a "proper" taxonomy but 10 times simpler. (Of course, I don't know if there is a lesson there for the everyday work of IAs - different kind of problem.)

Update: I meant to link to our very own Cal Henderson's 'tags' plugin for Movable Type 3 (which lets you use tags rather than fixed categories in MT3).

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