Are you one of those people who creates a list of goals every New Year’s Eve or maybe every year on your birthday? If so, you might enjoy the site 43 Things. At this site, you can input up to 43 goals that you have for your life. Entries range from “overcome my fear of heights” to “read more books”. The point is to provide you with an opportunity to communicate with others who share your goal.
43 Things is just one example of the social technology referred to as folksonomy, which is defined as collaborative categorization. Connections emerge out of shared interests. Library Thing, which allows you to input (and catalog!!) your personal book collection, also includes some folksonomy features. You can find others who have many of the same books that you have. The idea is that you will then discover other titles to read and that you might find friends with whom you could share book titles in the future.
I just returned from the Internet Librarian conference where I had the opportunity to see Jenny Levine present again. She said that in her opinion, folksonomy is one of the coolest things happening in the web world right now. Definitely something to watch and think about!
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