<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9916585e-4417-4029-985b-b9e70935ee83/811CF9CE-F737-44E4-AA1B-4B7112837E7A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue12/issue12_simons.html" href="http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue12/issue12_simons.html" style="font-size: 11px;">journal.fibreculture.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue12/issue12_simons.html">The nominalist approach tends to look at folksonomies as an interesting experiment in alternative, spontaneously and collaboratively created popular taxonomies, the success of which is largely measured by the standards for expert taxonomies. This validation can go both ways: folksonomies are either seen as "feral" hypertexts that need to be tamed by curbing the liberty of the taggers through synonym and homonym control and recommendation systems, or they are promoted as anarchic systems in which individual users can trace their personal profiles and signatures </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue12/issue12_simons.html">Natural languages do not carve up the world the way expert taxonomists do, nor do linguistic expressions simply "mirror" the states of affairs they are expressions about. The question, then, is whether there is more in the tag cloud than mere words? <A id=text5 name=text5></A><A class=sidenav2 href="#note5">[5]</A> Does something like a "collective intelligence" leave its traces in a tag cloud </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue12/issue12_simons.html">a tag cloud may function as a recommendation system.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/811CF9CE-F737-44E4-AA1B-4B7112837E7A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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