Folksonomy - no comments

The Wikipedia describes a folksonomy as a "neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords." For an alternate form of words, here's Peter Parkes' introduction.

Some of our bloggers are already posting using software that allows them to tag their articles with categories/keywords of their own choice (no such luck if you use Blogger).

I think we've just about got to the stage where there are enough tagged posts on the system to make it worthwhile collecting-up and sorting these categories. Once you've collated that data, it's pretty easy to generate a cool-looking list like the "Folksonomic Zeitgeist" at the Guardian's Election 2005 blog site.

Here's our version if you fancy a look. Obviously it'll look a lot better when more bloggers are able to tag their posts and we have 700 to look at, rather than just 100, but it's a taste of things to come.

http://www.bloggers4labour.org/tags.jsp