#15

I read some of the articles about Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries. It occurred to me that we've been hearing about the "future of libraries" (generally predictions of their imminent demise) for the last 30 years, but I guess the pace of change has increased somewhat recently! A brave new world indeed.

I was interested in the article from Wikipedia on tags, folksonomies and social bookmarking, and how items are still being sorted into broad categories before using tags for the finer classification distinctions - seems we can't really escape hierarchical systems altogether?