December 12, 2006
MarkBernstein.org
 

tags: tree, house, wtf, oops

Magdalena Donea's house had a large redwood in the back yard. The tree fell down. Um. Okay. We have no house. 

Everyone is OK.

Maggy tags this post with "tree, house, wtf, oops, bellevue".

Here's another problem with folksonomy: nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Which is to say, the tags for something improbable, exotic, and bizarre are unlikely to be very useful. (Taxonomy isn't much better, of course. "Uh, does this get filed under "Redwood: impact on residential building: deleterious" or "Nocturnal adventures: domestic: frightening"?