Ross Singer gets the prize for submitting the first reader contributed tag, the latest feature in bsuite.
There are arguments about whether user-contributed tags are useful or even valid, or whether they should be stored in my site or aggregated at places like del.ici.ous. But who’s to worry about such questions? Who’s to worry when you [...]
Posted March 12, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: bsuite, collabulary, folksonomy, tag, tagging, tags, user contributed, wisdom of the crowd, wpopac. 4 Comments.
Bob Garlitz, who’s trying to decide between blogging at Typepad and Blogspot, wrote to offer a somewhat older phrase for the success of social software as described in The Wisdom of Crowds and in the definition of collabulary: “the ignorant perfection of ordinary people.”
Bob is at a loss to identify the source (and it pre-dates [...]
Posted March 9, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: collabulary, folksonomy, ignorant perfection, ordinary people, social software, the ignorant perfection of ordinary people, The Wisdom of Crowds, wisdom of crowds. One Comment.
