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Folksonomies (Score:2)
Not really.
The problem is that classification is a very tough problem to solve. You could spend lots of money and lots of time coming up with the one true classification system that will always be right (except when it disagrees with every other classification system that other people have spent lots of time and money developing).
del.icio.us is a Perlish response: the solution is messy because the problem space is messy. Instead of solving the problem on the scale of 1, 2, or 3 classi
Read about it (Score:2)
It discusses the problem you're having: predefined classifications, AKA "controllled vocabularies", vs. the free tagging as on del.icio.us, aka "folksonomies". Like Ziggy said, people are only starting to grasp how it works, how it should work, how it should evolve.
The major problem with controlled vocabularies is, and I quote from