Folksonomy on Blog
Usually when you are trying to sort something up, you categorized them. The more diverse the material you are trying to sort, the more category you’ll have. This is of course won’t be a problem if the material you sorted doesn’t need a concurrent lookup, which is a really rare case in the age of information overload like we are experiencing right now.
We can say that you are using taxonomy as your sorting method by categorizing anything you can categorize. But problems will occur, like I mentioned earlier, when you have a great number of categories. It will take a lot of effort and time to search each category for the things that you needed and of course it’s not efficient nor effective anymore. And that’s where folksonomy comes into place.
Instead of categorizing your information, you can start by tagging them. Tagging, as one form of folksonomy, was getting alot of attention and has penetrated many developers heart across the net. Technorati, del.icio.us, Flickr, is to name a few of a successful implementation of tagging (therefore folksonomy).
Tagging is not that much of different than category, but it took you a little bit further. On blogging, your writers could easily find an article that’s already tagged that suits his need rather than searching one by one in the categorical section. Simply they can lookup for the tag that they need and start reading the entry.
This blog its-self is on its way on implementing folksonomy by implementing tags rather than category. It’s not finished yet and the ETA hopefully not so long after Idul Fitri.
Todo list: change category as tag, implement tag clouds in exchange of category, tiddy up tags.
Special thanks to: Budi on recommending the use of tags, and Eric on how to edit my asides (plus tags).
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