Pietro Speroni: Delimind

Tags have become so popular, they have become an object of scientific study. The new term folksonomy describes "a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords". It’s called folksonomy because it’s taxonomy turned on its head. Instead of a group of experts classifying everything according to strict rules (as in biology), folksonomy is classification by end users according to their subjective view of the world.

Pietro Speroni has posted some interesting notes on folksonomy and tagclouds on his blog (which, not surprisingly, is heavily tagged). But he doesn’t just write about tags, he writes software about it too. His Delimind software will make a nice mindmap of your del.icio.us links, grouping related tags. He has made the Python source code available too.

And if you still want to know more about tags, have a look at Tagsonomy, a blog just about tags…