Chris McEvoy illuminates yet another flavor of folksonomy: Bloglines users are a load of knitters has lots of interesting stats and analysis. Chris even makes a data file available of all 10K categories having >= 10 items. Very cool. The top 10 most popular folder names on Bloglines are: 1. Blogs 2. News 3. tech… Read more ⇢

Erik Benson recently relaunched All Consuming with an emphasis on registered users, more media types (movies, music, etc., not just books) and … support for free-form tagging of those things. A folksonomy for books! I like it. Examples: Politics Physics Cooking It’s a little sparsely populated yet, but I can’t wait for this thing to… Read more ⇢

There’s been a lot of buzz recently about “leveraging the hive mind” with attention.xml. Basically, attention.xml is an XML spec for publishing your reading habits (how often you read a feed, how much time you spent reading a post, or when you last read a feed). It’s intended as an open foundation for a “cloud… Read more ⇢

Pito Salas has some interesting notepad noodling on taxonomies, folksonomies, etc., including a mapping of some familiar implementations of *onomies (del.icio.us, yahoo!, flickr, file system folders, etc.) into a two-dimensional grid with x axis := {for my own benefit, for other people’s benefit} and y axis := {my own stuff, other people’s stuff}. In other… Read more ⇢