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It was very interesting this week reading further into the pros and cons of tagging and folksonomies. As in last week's post, I remain intrigued by the way folksonomies can be a great complement to controlled classification methods, balancing out each other's weaknesses with their own unique strengths. In refuting the disadvantages of folksonomies in The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging, Kroski in many cases transforms the weaknesses of folksonomies into strengths.

I was eager to read Ellyssa Kroski's article, The Hive Mind because just last week a co-worker was raving about her after meeting her at a conference. He has let me borrow her book "Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals" which is a great resource for those that are new to web 2.0.

Wow, this week has really hit home for me...I had started writing an epic blog posting when I accidently hit the "delete!" button and lost the whole thing!!  I'll try to shorten what I originally had, since it really was quite long!  Like I said, this week's topic is really interesting for me, and I didn't realize it would be until I did the readings and looked at some of the blogs from everyone else.  Lee Rainie's article really jump-started my thinking for this week.

Similar to Angie's statement in her blog, I also admit to slacking a little on the whole tagging through del.icio.us. Though I'm blaming this on the fact that I hadn't used it before and therefore, didn't attribute personal value to tagging, out of ignorance. For years I have been been a slave to bookmarking favourites on my computer, creating a library of categories and hoarding websites with pride. However, earlier this summer something happened... my computer crashed, and I lost everything.