[Sigia-l] bottom up classification

[Eric Scheid]

Interesting commentary on a bottom up classification ... anyone here with
more experience with blogshares care to chime in with more details?

Related to folksonmy/ethnoclassification, but with a stronger leaning
towards the act of classifying a pre-existing thing into an existing
taxonomy, rather than assigning a tag to a new thing.

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  But... and perhaps this is the point of the game ... for the "market"
  to work, blogs must be filed and catalogued into various "industries",
  which can range from the language of the blog ("English", "French"), to
  the subject ("Advertising", "Cooking"), to the location of the blogger
  ("Russia", "North Carolina"). Players make these assignments by "voting"
  on a blog's industry (and thereby earn the ever-valuable "chips").
  
  It's not a Blog-taxonomy-Wiki, but it has every attribute of one.
  
  The result: a complex, comprehensive directory of the most active part
  of the blogosphere. Not every blog is here; on the other hand, I've not
  met a blog recently that wasn't here. And by exploring various
  "industries", I find myself on a journey of serendipity."

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