The Wired Campus blog has an interesting post on tagging called "Tough talk about tagging". See the comments for concerns about the lack of controlled language/authority control in tagging.
Back in January, the ResourceShelf discussed why tagging is potentially quite useful for personal use and small groups, but has not yet proven to be so valuable for the masses. They note that many of the most popular tags are technology-related and ask whether non-techies are publicly posting. That post was responding to the Pew Internet and American Life survey on American tagging. This report includes an interesting interview with David Weinberger, the author of Everything is Miscellaneous: the Power of the New Digital Disorder. Folksonomies had gotten quite a bit of attention in the mainstream press including this Newsweek article. Now folks are asking "Is tagging stuck?"

Labels: folksonomies, tagging

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