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Folksonomies, memes and misunderstanding

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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." They tend to emerge without being planned and spread virally. Taxonomies are imposed, but folksonomies are democratic.