PodLeaders - Thought Leaders podcast

My guest on today’s show was information architect Thomas Vander Wal. Thomas was the originator of the term folksonomy and we had a fascinating discussion about folksonomic toolsets, personal and business cases for using tagging and what Thomas calls the ‘Come to me Web’.

Here are the questions I asked Thomas and the times in the interview at which I asked them:

Thomas, first off can you tell the listeners who is Thomas Van Der Wal, what is your background and what is it that you do now? - 35:32

What was it that attracted you to information architecture in the first place? - 3:06

You mentioned that you are currently involved in product development - is that something you can talk about right now? - 4:46

Can you give us a brief intro to tagging? - 5:32

What is a Folksonomy then? - 7:21

What is a typical Folksonomic toolset? - 11:00

Can businesses use this kind of technology? - 13:17

Do you want to talk a little more about the product development you are involved in? - 16:11

You wrote recently about the ‘Come to me Web’ - what is that? - 18:22

Do you see the advent of structured blogging as a tool to push forward the ‘come to me web’? - 23:39

How do you see tagging becoming more mainstream? - 30:11

Where do you see the biggest change in the Internet in the last 12-24 months? - 35:01

Where do you see this headed in the next 12-24 months? - 39:58

Have you any time frame for when the product development you mentioned earlier will be released? - 42:42

Download the interview here (20.4mb mp3).

This is the first mp3 I have encoded at 64 bit - all previous podcasts have been encoded at 32 bit. I’d be interested to hear from listeners whether they noticed any difference in the sound quality.