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Mathieu Plourde

The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging - 0 views

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    "As users continue to add tags, a grassroots organizational scheme begins to emerge which has been dubbed by information architect Thomas Vander Wal, to be a folksonomy. A combination of "folks" and "taxonomy", the term has come to mean a non-hierarchical ontology that is created as a natural result of user-added metadata or tagging."
Mathieu Plourde

Heavy editing on textbook publishers - 0 views

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    "From our perspective, we view textbook publishers as highly exploitative," Justin Goss, a student senator at UC Davis, told members of the Senate Education Committee. "While I am sure that they are perfectly nice people, it continues to baffle me why a reordered table of contents and a shiny new binding warrants and additional $50, $60, or sometimes $100 on the price tag."
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