RSS, Taxonomy and Folksonomy

A very interesting meeting this morning with other library staff who are learning to use Web 2.0 technologies at the same time. I am afraid I talked too much as usual. I get very excited about opportunities like these and don't shut up.

I finally know the difference between a taxonomy and a folksonomy. I first heard the word taxonomy at a conference in Sydney in 2006. I am afraid I thought the user was being a smarty pants using a word that I didn't know the meaning of. Please accept my apologies belated and as generalised as they are. Since then I have learned more about taxoniomies without understanding the term.

So to RSS feed. I have now used it with a variety of different blogs and I have to say I haven't found it to be the lifesaver that I expected. Perhaps this is because I don't go to particular sites regularly so I don't really have a burning need to know what they are publishing.

I am more interested in the idea that we use words that mean something to us to describe resources on the web. I particularly like the cloud effect that can come from it. I first came across this with Gnud in 2004. So I will go out there on the web and start tagging things that I come across with my subjective descriptions.

Has anyone played with Library Thing?