Folksonomies

Says Louis Rosenfeld,

Lately, you can't surf information architecture blogs for five minutes without stumbling on a discussion of folksonomies (there; it happened again!).

There; it happened again. I'm not stopping long enough to comment, just to say that it's good to see this getting some serious thought and debate. It's clear that carefully crafted taxonomies don't work for on-the-fly information organisation; we need something better, something more dynamic.

I think is largely triggered by the success of del.icio.us (get an account if you haven't already: it's a powerful tool). There are now two similar tools specifically intended for academics, CiteULike and connotea. I'm not done evaluation which of these, if either, has the edge.