If you ever wondered if folksonomies — user-created taxonomies — were any good, a round or two of this game should dispel any confidence you may have had.
Fastr is a game that uses flickr images. It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. When you guess right, the tag will turn blue
Amazing how meaningless the tags are, how irrelevant they to anyone but the person who created them.
So, I hear an argument? What’s wrong with that?
Nothing, but then why share the tags? The idea of tagging is to allow artifacts to be associated with like artifacts. If the tags themselves don’s associate with the artifact, what good are they?