I came upon a colleague's web site yesterday. He works in a completely different business line and office than I do, so it would seem unlikely that I'd ever see his blog. If it weren't for the fact that I read wide and far on subjects that are completely outside my job description, I wouldn't
Adam Mathes has written an excellent paper, Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata, that describes (in far more elegant and succinct terms) the issues that I've experienced in my quest to categorize my personal information, blogs, links, etc. I am a little wiser and more educated about how to describe my struggles
James Surowiecki posits in The Wisdom of Crowds that "Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future" and spends 270 pages supporting that theory. I really enjoyed this book. He makes economics interesting -- and how
I've been looking at my Bloglines subscriptions and Furl links to ferrit out the meaning behind the categories I use. It's led me to question how I really use this content and the effectiveness of these categories I've chosen. So, what have I come up with? A big mess and no easy answers...but you knew
