Folksonomy from the New York Times
16th Nov 2006, 18:51 GMT
Times reporter Tom Zeller, Jr. has a feature today in which the Gray Lady bastion of hierarchies—sections, subsections and categories—has eight little news pieces, each with tags. The tags seem to be names of NYT sections, which is not quite folksonomy—but a noteworthy emergence from the abyss of hierarchy. It is also possible to move through each piece by clicking diverse ideas highlighted here and there. It will be interesting to watch this news network interconnect. I think the tags are what will make this mobbing news feature smart. Zeller's explanation that follows describes the often overlooked power of content itself to cause the networking we call thinking. About The Lede In the news business, the opening sentences of a story are referred to as its "lede" -- spelled that way, journalism lore has it, to avoid confusion with the lead typesetting that once dominated newspaper printing presses. Although a tightly focused narrative typically follows the lede, every sentence in a news story has the potential to spiral off in new directions, and each paragraph leaves behind unexplored angles. That's where The Lede's mission begins.
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