In this article, Wichowski notes that no matter how useful information is, it will be of no use if no one can find it. She discusses how "ordinary people" have taking tagging into their own hands to make sure that useful information is able to be found easily. Sites like delicious.com have formed to organize information. Some are still not convinced that folksonomies work. Critics are concerned about the lack of rules for assigning tags lead to problems. These include errors in identification, duplication, and lack of precision and clarity.
I am not too familiar with a lot of these sites, but in my experience (as an "ordinary person") I feel that folksonomies are working and will be around for awhile.
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