O’Reilly (hearts) del.icio.us

O’Reilly has an interesting experiment underway in which they’ve taken articles that have been tagged on del.icio.us and are using those tags to create a folksonomy on their own site. The tags and resulting folksonomy created by the readers is not only meant to replace O’Reilly’s own categorization, but rather to add to it. In their own words, “There’s value in both types. One’s authoritative. The other is flexible and dynamic.” As someone who uses del.icio.us extensively and sees a great future for tagging, this is a great development. I hope del.icio.us will open up their data to any sites that wish to do the same.

This blog post goes into further detail about the O’Reilly experiment. And if you don’t know what del.icio.us is, here’s some info we’ve posted before.