Richard Filing

From Steve Eisner’s The Social Life blog (ageing unfortunately):
Except: There are two remaining solutions to the tag mess, assuming you’re sticking with standard methods of tag browsing: 1) re-tagging content later based on observed usage, and 2) tag equivalence (or at least tag migration.) #1 isn’t going to happen, so let’s focus on the more practical #2. What this means is that users can tag items with some original term, but if another term becomes more popular, the first term can somehow be declared equivalent to the new term, so searchers will find the intended content. Whether automatically applied or added manually, this equivalence can greatly increase the network benefit of a bookmarking application. 
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