The metadata talked about in Badke shows us that sometimes you have to give up some control to find what you want. Using a subject heading search can at times be a lot more effective than a keyword search; although I still believe a keyword search is more convenient for a lot of people. A keyword search maybe broad but it will at times like a subject heading help lead you somewhere you weren’t planning to go. Honestly were it not for school I would seldom use a subject heading/taxonomy search mainly because a keyword search is how I usually search for anything on my phone or at home. For me a keyword search is like a bad habit I have been trying to quit but it’s just too easy to keep picking up.
I feel as though the Jessica Dye article on folksonomy was written about one year too early. I say this because almost three weeks before the article on March 21st Twitter happened; twitter in my opinion is one of the ultimate folksonomy tools and would have surely given Dye’s article even more validity. Almost everything on twitter gets tagged no matter what it is, the whole hash-tag phenomena has taken off since twitter started being used by the public. One problem with folksonomy happened in class when professor Leonard mispelled ‘Nicky Minaj’ in a picture search and everyone who misspelled her name and tagged her picture with a “y” showed up, but when she corrected her search and spelled it with a ‘i” it displayed a lot more pictures. I bring this up to show that folksonomy is not always used correctly, if you misspell a word that word still gets tagged with that misspelling so any picture with that misspelling might not show up for someone who searches for it while using the correct spelling.