Posts about Folksonomy

Design for Selfishness

In Design, Folksonomy, Geek, Internet, Tags, Technorati on 11 April 2006

In 1996, Paulina Borsook wrote a story that, frankly, really pissed me off. In “Cyberselfish,” published in Mother Jones and…

How Tags Happened at Technorati

In Blogging, Folksonomy, Internet, Powazek, Technorati, Weblogs on 25 July 2005

It’s been six months since we added Tags to Technorati (where I’m Senior Designer), and as it turns out, it…

Searching vs. Browsing

In Blogging, Folksonomy, Tags, Technorati on 19 January 2005

Or: Why you’re gonna be hearing the word “tag” a lot Think about these two words for a moment: “Search”…