Posted on Friday 25 November 2005 - Popularity: unranked
Everything becomes tagged these days, but are there any negative consequences that could arise or that already materialized? Liz Lawley from a group weblog on social software writes:
Unfortunately, too many of the paeans to tagging that I’ve read have completely ignored some of the key social and cultural issues associated with public and collaborative labeling of content, opting instead for a level of technology-driven optimism that I see as overly naive. I think folksonomy has incredible value—the two web sites that I use most heavily right now are Flickr and del.icio.us. And I understand that this is something that can’t be stuffed back into the bottle. Nonetheless, I don’t think that means we have to accept it with an uncritical eye, or adopt every new implementation of tagging without consideration.
Great article with some interesting examples of the problem and possible solutions. Don’t miss to read the comments.
