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Folksonomies, memes and misunderstanding

Learning with e's

I thought this was a real gem, because it represented all that is 'corporate control' and 'top down' on the Web. Taking issue with it in his blogpost he says: "A folksonomy loses its qualities as a folksonomy once you have someone 'organising' it, and will quickly become a taxonomy." patparslow didn't like my definition though.