Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight
Holly at NTEN has a post titled "Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." So, with the fight metaphor, I couldn't resist running a googlefight. Taxonomy won! No surprise.
I ran another googlefight using the word "tagging" instead of the Folksonomy and tagging won!
Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with "Taxonomies are for Chumps" post.
Gavin emailed the note below and mentioned he will be summarizing all this on his blog ...
Well my friends,... I've learned one thing.. If one wanted to drive traffic to one's blog.. all you need do is just tag something "NPTECH" .. and mention "folksonomy." my hits have quadrupled. Now I've just got to figure out how one replies to comments! It's kind of fun!
Also another blog post about this from E Kim - not tagged with "nptech" but as I pointed out the author doesn't necessarily have the tag the post. Anyone can tag it and add it to their social bookmarking account and get it into the tag stream.
Chris Blow has done some analysis. Marnie suggests - in a comment someplace - that we should do some user-generate research analysis on this user-generated research. Here's Marnie's reflections from an earlier look at the NpTech Tag.
Is that anything like "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"? For your amusement, scroll down in yet another of my blogs to the "tangent" on embyology.
Posted by: Pam | January 10, 2007 at 10:51 PM
social activities .vs. sport activities
Posted by: davood | January 20, 2007 at 04:27 AM