Every so often, I throw out all my newsfeeds and start again. Lately, I have not been finding items that I want to comment on. For some reason, technology, elearning, and KM content does not seem very original lately. I am not getting the same sense of constant questioning and assertions of new answers. I have, however, enjoyed the conversations about "folksonomies" which I have noted in this blog. Coming from background in which controlled vocabularies were required,I have found the ideas harder than usual to accept, but I am coming around. I think that wehn there is a graphical interface showing the most used terms, folksonomies can work. If I want my content about ireland to be found, I can tag the items or photos with the commonly used terms. I think the laizze fair approach has a lot of merit and it works.
Lately, each night I read my newsfeeds and end up deleting the majority without even following up. Maybe by redoing my list I can become reenergized with the content flowing into my inbox.
You are not alone with the newsfeed shuffle. Being from a controlled vocabulary environment, the latest nipple crinkler ''tagging'' has got to be driving you nuts.
In the long term there will need to be some sort of intervention as tagging at this point in time is really nothing more than bloggers with electronic spraypaint cans writing raving lunacy rulez....
There is already a inappropriate content debate. sigh...