Blog: Matt's Musings

Matt's Musings comes up frequently in an alert I have set up for taxonomies through PSSdir. Matthew Hodgson is a management consultant with SMS Management & Technology in Canberra, Australia, and he seems to think a lot about information architecture and social computing.

From time to time he also muses on classification and the use of taxonomies. There is a particular interesting pair of postings - Folk taxonomy and the taxonomy with examples and some views on benefits and problems.

Also Part III on Folksonomies as shown through their use at delicious and Flickr.

Key question: "In the traditional information classification space (or even information architecture space) we create lots of artifacts like site maps, navigation systems, and taxonomies. In creating all these things we really should be asking ourselves whether our information models are built on the assumption that a single way to organise things can suit all users, one IA to rule them all, so to speak."