Quoted: The Taxonomy module organizes taxonomies into vocabularies which consist of one or more terms. Vocabularies group terms that describe an aspect of the node.

Interesting post on tagging systems; why they work well on LibraryThing, and poorly at Amazon.

Takeaways:
- People will tag, when it benefits themselves, but not if it only benefits others.
- You need a critical mass of tags to be useful to community and overwhelm spam-taggers and opinion-taggers.
- You generally want over 100 tags applied to a book to get both highly relevant and complete tags represented.

Currently 43 comments on this post. Our friends at Peerworks (Shel Kaphan's non-profit tagging project, was one of the first to respond.

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 ...

Quoted: Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source

Explanation of the (rather complex) Wikipedia category system.

Downloaded to my MP3 player - this was a VERY GOOD talk. I really have a feel for Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) personality and a better idea for the true success principles behind Wikipedia (it's much less chaotic than it appears).

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

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