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Do taxonomies scale?

January 12th, 2007 by David Weinberger

Kevin Gamble asks a really interesting question: Can anyone come up with an example of a taxonomy that has scaled sufficiently to keep up with the insane in-rush of information we now take for granted? [Tags: kevin_gamble taxonomy everything_is_miscellaneous folksonomy ]

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