Collective Tagging Described

Sad Weird Kid writes “Scientific American has an article about collective tagging web sites:

“A team of physicists from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” sought to determine the underlying statistical properties of this new information paradigm by studying the behaviors of tags, single words used to describe the content of a linked article or photo on the social bookmarking/collaborative tagging sites del.icio.us and Connotea.”

The article is here