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« Customer loyalty, customer ownership || Back to Blog | Moira Gunn's TechNation interview with me » June 02, 2007
Over at the ongoing conversation about Everything is Miscellaneous at The Well, Jamais Cascio defines "fauxsonomies" as folksonomies gamed by "metadata added with the conscious intent to confuse or obfuscate," or to weight them for spammish reasons. Great term. Very clever, Jamais! Since nothing has ever been said on the Net just once, I googled "fauxonomy" and got 53 hits, plus eight with Jamais' spelling, including one by Tom Coates at PlasticBag.org. In fact, Tom has a fauxonomy tag at del.icio.us. (Google revealed that I'd blogged Tom's post about it in April 2005. Ah, the pleasures of having a poor memory.) Nevertheless, I was delighted to get reacquainted with the term, this time with a definition attached. [Tags: folksonomy tagging ] Posted
by D. Weinberger at June 2, 2007 02:33 PM
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While this is interesting, I was more taken with his term "mass-amateurisation" which he meant in a good way. I think.
He didn't mention "so much crap; so little information" anywhere. But his trackback list said a lot: many links were dead and many others hadn't been updated in a year or more.
"Professionals" have an incentive to keep ther blog up: money. "Amateurs", by definition, don't have that incentive. Unless the readers of the blog (or the blogger's ego or other motivator) manage to make them feel guilty (or important) enough to make them keep a blog up-to-date.
Posted by: Charlie Green | June 3, 2007 08:03 PM