Linking it Up Again
Here are a couple articles out there worth linking to:
Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?
This is a pretty thorough look at folksonomies and touches on a lot of the issues I have written about before. The authors take the stand that folksonomies will benefit from greater regulation in the tagging process and general uniformity in tagging, but they also recognize that there is often a trade-off between the optimizing the global effect and optimizing inidividual interaction. As I wrote about yesterday, a non-invasive way to implement some sort of regulation into a folksonomic system would be to enable a certain amount of feedback. This avoid the problem of a central/centralizing entity telling people how to tag and allows for individuals to tag how they please but with influence from the system as a whole.
An interesting read nonetheless.
Objects that Blog
jbleeker at Networked Publics writes about objects that could blog as the future of content. He uses the example of a little league scoreboard. It's an interesting idea especially given the otherwise personality driven nature of blogs.
