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Figure 2-18. A tag cloud at LibraryThing.
Folksonomy has a light footprint, as it's hard to see the whole. The glimpse we get through
clouds isn't nearly as satisfying as the view from the top-level of a taxonomy. But to fix on that
contrast is to miss the point. Tagging flips the model. Rather than place each object in a hier-
archy, taggers describe objects any way they want. Tag creation is idiosyncratic, bottom-up, and
object-centered, and so are its use cases. The value of tags is realized in the strange connections
(and descriptions) that appear once a user finds an object.
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