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Technically Speaking: Folk Wisdom

by: P. Mcfedries
Spectrum, IEEE, Vol. 43, No. 2. (2006), pp. 80-80.

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This article has been bookmarked 22 times, initially on 2006-03-27.

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2006-06-12 User lberning , 1 note

A really good summary of what a "folksonomy" is, how social bookmarking sites are building them, and why they may be as useful as professionally crafted taxonomies.

2006-06-20 18:46:51
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2006-04-06 User mbraly , 1 note

Overview article explaining what tagging is and giving examples of applications that use tagging.

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