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March 26, 2005

Back and forth on folksonomies as controlled vocabularies

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Posted by David Weinberger

Over at my personal site I’ve posted an internal dialogue about what folksonomies, taken as controlled vocabularies, might do to the ambiguity of language. I.e., are tags making us dumb?

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