Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Folksonomy and the human touch

I find it interesting that folksonomy adds a social aspect to organize the web, and it helps with the human touch. I am convinced that people like to act on the recommendation of others, and this just increases our number of sources. On the other hand, sometimes the descriptions could be vague/inaccurate or just not classified in a way that would suite the individual. Although you can't please all of the people all of the time, after all some people don't approve of the Dewey decimal system.

A bit off the subject, but a good example of how far technology has come. Look at what Japan can do with cell phones now. Here is a little something about how dangerous computers can be. So as with anything in life, you take the good with the bad. That is as long as the good outweighs the bad.

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