Social Tagging – Questions Answered on Correction Tools and Vendors

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of giving a presentation on taxonomy vs. folksonomy in the enterprise to the Deloitte Social Tagging & Taxonomy Community of Practice, thanks to an invitation by fellow taxonomy enthusiasts Annie Wang and Lee Romero.
It was a fun presentation (a variation on this talk) and the audience asked some [...]

Podcast on Folksonomy & Taxonomy in the Enterprise

I had the great pleasure of doing a podcast a few weeks ago with Paul Miller, podcaster for Nodalities (magazine & blog), on hybrid approaches to folksonomy and taxonomy and their role in the enterprise.
We discussed the now tired debate of folksonomy vs. taxonomy, and focused on the strengths and applications of each approach. I [...]

ZigTag Finally Launches Semantic Bookmarking

So, I seem to have not been on the right RSS feed, because I totally missed the memo that ZigTag finally launched at the end of 2008.  I had signed up for the restricted Beta some time ago (there were 500 or so participants), and was awaiting the live version anxiously. ZigTag is a tagging/bookmarking [...]

The Hierarchies Are Flat (?)

I recently started reading Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. I know, I know. The book was published in 2006, and I’m only just now reading it. However, the ideas I think are very relevant to what is happening in the current economy and discussions around the future [...]

CMS Watch predicts death of taxonomy

On this first day of 2009, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the CMS Watch list of predictions for 2009. Getting big play in the top 3 is “Taxonomies are dead. Long live metadata!”.
With social computing coming to the fore, it’s never been more obvious that everyone does not, and will never, [...]