Matt Biddulf has an animated screen capture of what del.icio.us would look like embedded in the BBC 3’s page. It’s an eye-popper all right: So elegant it seems obvious. Brilliant. (Thanks to The Obvious for the link.) [Technorati tag: taxonomy]

danah responds to Clay’s enthusiasm (which I generally share) for tags.

There’s a problematic feature to crowds – they like to homogenize…

Folksonomy isn’t asking the questions about the implications of collective action classification. Who benefits? Who becomes marginalized? What priorities bubble up? How does pressure to homogenize affect the schema and the people involved? How are some people hurt or offended by decisions that are made? Should moderation of classifications occur? If so, what are the consequences?

These are great questions, and leave it to danah to ask them! We’ll address them as they occur…but only if (as danah suggests) we keep raising them. Otherwise, we’d have to design a system ahead of time that we would undoubtedly get wrong.

Categories: Uncategorized dw