Week 8

My first thought this week is that Kroski's
article is amazing. As I was reading through the positive points about folksonomies and tagging, I kept thinking, "Yes, but...", and then when I got to the latter part of the piece, most of my objections were accounted for.

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.