Social Consequences of Social Tagging

Social Consequences of Social Tagging
Some of the doubts I've expressed about things like Technorati Tags surface here in thsi article questioning social tagging in general. For example: "It’s certain that some people will try to game the system, deliberately tagging their photos to misdirect people." One possible solution? "A system by which people can form epistomology gangs who decide to share tags, and declare a concensually [sic] decided-upon meaning." The author presents readers with the ESP game, covered in these pages last May. It turns out that social tagging, in this context, isn't all it was made out to be. More...