The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging

Developed by: Ellyssa Kroski
Type of resource: web article
Target audience: General
Cost: Free access

This overview article by Ellyssa Kroski examines characteristics of folksonomies, describes tools for data organisation, and tag clouds. Folksonomies are inclusive, current, democratic and self-moderating, according to Kroski, but also have plenty of "hitches", which she also details.

http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2005/12/07/the-hive
-mind-folksonomies-and-user-based-tagging/