Folksonomy Folks!!!
What is Folksonomy? Glad you asked: it’s the system of classifying created by the “folks”. Perfect example is EBay because when you list (or buy) something you have to specify the category whether it’s electronics, automobiles, clothing, accessories, etc… Folksonomy is metadata created by the people, which could sort of relate to blog post in quirky sort of way. This is true because we, the people, have the power to write, and form sentences any way we want to present the meaning of a word, statement, phrase, or quote for the viewers to see.
Over the last few months (I’d say the last three months) blogs have become very well-known, if they weren’t already. The reason I say this is because I never knew what they were before taking this class, but now even friend of mine are hearing about them. The reason this all ties together is because blogs are there own folksonomy, and sooner or later this will be the new resource for finding information on the internet. I mean come on, whenever you google something the page that ranks on the top isn’t usually an encyclopedia entry (such as Encarta) most times it’s someone’s webpage, blog post, or just some random page that has the words you put in the search engine. The reason this is possible is because of formal taxonomy (which is works of popularity).
Not everyone knows what a folksonomy is yet. I don’t mean anyone in our classes, but older people outside of the class, such as my Business and Society professor. She’s is completely clueless of what Wikipedia is, and doesn’t understand the concept of people forming an encyclopedia made of their own thoughts, and ideas, and meanings of certain topics. It may be because she isn’t that much into computers, but like I said earlier this is going to be the new advance way of searching the web for information. Like Joy said, it’s being able to read what someone was thinking about an issue at a particular time. Perhaps later on in the day that person will think of new ideas to add on to what they’ve already written, and this is phenomenal because a particular person could be an expert on a certain matter, and having something written in simple terms allows any one to understand.
Elena makes a great point of folksonomies being a way to organize the world, wow! I think this is a brilliant point, and as I type this blog post I realize that I am engaged in “folksonomy” because I am learning more information by searching what my classmates are saying about this topic, and am becoming an expert on this word by gaining knowledge of what others think it is. I in fact am not the only person that feels like this either; I mean take a look at social folksonomy and just see others put meaning to this concept as well. Another link that is helpful (which is connected to social folksonomy) is Many 2 Many which is a group that blogs on social software and these two links are connected because they both outsource each other (just like we find outside sources). The reason theses links work well are because they’re both examples of how people bring meaning to this word folksonomy. I’m just happy that there are other sources than world encyclopedias because the “folks” put intriguing meanings to what are sometimes very boring topics, and I hope that folksonomy is here to stay. NO, I know it is:)
Over the last few months (I’d say the last three months) blogs have become very well-known, if they weren’t already. The reason I say this is because I never knew what they were before taking this class, but now even friend of mine are hearing about them. The reason this all ties together is because blogs are there own folksonomy, and sooner or later this will be the new resource for finding information on the internet. I mean come on, whenever you google something the page that ranks on the top isn’t usually an encyclopedia entry (such as Encarta) most times it’s someone’s webpage, blog post, or just some random page that has the words you put in the search engine. The reason this is possible is because of formal taxonomy (which is works of popularity).
Not everyone knows what a folksonomy is yet. I don’t mean anyone in our classes, but older people outside of the class, such as my Business and Society professor. She’s is completely clueless of what Wikipedia is, and doesn’t understand the concept of people forming an encyclopedia made of their own thoughts, and ideas, and meanings of certain topics. It may be because she isn’t that much into computers, but like I said earlier this is going to be the new advance way of searching the web for information. Like Joy said, it’s being able to read what someone was thinking about an issue at a particular time. Perhaps later on in the day that person will think of new ideas to add on to what they’ve already written, and this is phenomenal because a particular person could be an expert on a certain matter, and having something written in simple terms allows any one to understand.
Elena makes a great point of folksonomies being a way to organize the world, wow! I think this is a brilliant point, and as I type this blog post I realize that I am engaged in “folksonomy” because I am learning more information by searching what my classmates are saying about this topic, and am becoming an expert on this word by gaining knowledge of what others think it is. I in fact am not the only person that feels like this either; I mean take a look at social folksonomy and just see others put meaning to this concept as well. Another link that is helpful (which is connected to social folksonomy) is Many 2 Many which is a group that blogs on social software and these two links are connected because they both outsource each other (just like we find outside sources). The reason theses links work well are because they’re both examples of how people bring meaning to this word folksonomy. I’m just happy that there are other sources than world encyclopedias because the “folks” put intriguing meanings to what are sometimes very boring topics, and I hope that folksonomy is here to stay. NO, I know it is:)
posted by Lania at 11:42 AM
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