Can the collective tagging of photos or events or web pages by a large number of people pursuing their own self interest lead to a more effective and efficient system of providing useful metadata?Some search algorithms use people-selected links as a a means to rate the popularity, thus the ranking in a list of found search results. I remember reading Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly a few years ago. Flickr uses some of this 'hive' theory on its site. I know I find Flickr a very powerful tool for photo management and sharing, just as Picasa 2 is very useful in managing photos on the desktop.
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