taxonomy

I've been fascinated by these creatures since I was a kid. After they were first discovered in 1938 off the South-East coast of Africa, a second species was discovered in Indonesia in 1997.

Would you believe there exists a grouping(of which the coelacanth is a member) called the "Lazarus taxon", after the New Testament character? Not to be confused with the Elvis taxon ;-) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_taxon.

Great little article about taxonomies and "task-onomies".

If Digg used a tagging system, rather than a fixed set of categories, users wouldn't have to go begging for a new featured area - it could just be organically grown (as it is on Blue Dot).

Quoted: Digg users have begun calling with increased volume for the creation of a special section of the site designated for photographs and pictures. Two ...

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Great lecture on tagging. Really gets going about 20 minutes in. Shirky

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Quoted: each item could be assigned to multiple categories (which could themselves organized into hierarchies), either by the user or automatically through classification rules

"Search engines don't know the difference between reading glasses and drinking glasses, but a taxonomy puts your query in context. We outline several ways to build taxonomies, ranging from the tough but potentially more accurate approach of building from scratch to the easier but potentially compromised approach of buying a prebuilt taxonomy or using automated clustering software"