Darwinian Web
Adam Green's thoughts on the evolution of the Internet

Taxonomy vs. Tag Cloud

Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 7:44 AM (permalink)

I'm working on adding tagging to my Ruby blog code, and this is forcing me to think again about the difference between a category scheme and a tag cloud. Clay Shirky summed this up well in his essay, and I think it will be a confusion and source of contention for some time to come.