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Whereas the old, Dewey-style taxonomies involved graybeards figuring out in advance how things should be categorized, tagging is done on the fly, adapting to the content itself. What's more, because all this is digital, there's no limit to the number of tags people can slap on an item. In a library you can put "Frederick the Great" in the history or the biography section, but you'd need a second copy to put it in both.Die Newsweek widmet sich dem Phänomen des Taggings. Korrekturen und Ergänzungen zu diesem Artikel hat SearchengineWatch.[via IB-Weblog]