Wednesday, May 25, 2005

To Tag or Not to Tag, That Is the Question 

Opinion Column by PC Magazine: To Tag or Not to Tag, That Is the Question: "The 'folksonomy' notion is the bloggers' last hope of invention, although it's a rewrite of the prebubble 'semantic Web' technology at best. And it too is doomed to failure. The utopianism and idealism that exist in the online societies ignore the real problem with tags, metatags, Ubertags, folksonomies, and the like. This is because they honestly think that most people are goodhearted. The online world, because of its anonymity, encourages bad behavior. 'You suck!' is a common post, and it would be the number-one tag if tagging ever became popular." Emphasis is mine.

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