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April 20, 2005

Success by puns

Just as we knew blogging was succeeding because of the hundred different plays on the word, "folksonomy" is now spawning its own, including "fauxonomy," a phrase used by Tom Coates and used in The Daily Chump's tagline, so to speak. (I myself am guilty of the highly forced "folksongnomic.") [Technorati tags: folksonomy fauxonomy]

Posted by D. Weinberger at April 20, 2005 02:11 PM


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Bah. It's not forced at all! I refuse to accept that it's not the correct spelling!

Posted by: Tom Coates | April 20, 2005 07:07 PM


I'm oddly fond of the word tagsidermy, which needs a definition.

Perhaps tagsidermy is the tagging of static sales pitches to create the illusion of participation in live conversations (i.e. tag spamming).

Posted by: Gabe | April 20, 2005 08:33 PM


How about foxonomy - tags for pictures of beautiful people on Flickr

Posted by: Larry Borsato | April 20, 2005 08:42 PM


"Peeronomy", but for the questionable sexual connotation, would make for a great splinter definition.

Posted by: Gary Turner | April 21, 2005 01:27 AM


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