"...number of blogs doubles just about every 6 months with over 51 million blogs ... estimated that Technorati will have tracked its 100 millionth blog in just 5 months."
Of course, these numbers seemed astounding. Don't these people have jobs? (or maybe it's millions of librarians all working on their 23 things...)
Reading about tagging made me think of the university that intentionally did not add sidewalks until it was evident where students were walking. Their paths determined where the sidewalks were eventually poured.
The concept of a folksonomy (wikipedia: "a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories") seems like a natural progression of cataloging online resources. How are most people thinking of these online resources? What kinds of terms are they using to describe sites and blogs? How many people would honestly use "cookery" to describe books that are about different types of cooking (that subject term in the Dewey system has always irked me)?
That would be an interesting study in classification as well as language - what why are people using the particular words they select for tags?
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