Authority
Authority
"But then, authority was appropriated by the Technorati mob, where it swiftly lost definition in a tangled tag soup of popularity, power, trust, credibility, and relevance. These words were tossed around indiscriminately in a Bacchanalian festival of semantic anarchy."
Don't try to take on Peter Morville with metaphors, or he'll bust your chops (kick your ass) like he did with David Weinberger's Tree and Leave metaphor. Here's another great one:
"Fortunately, before the tag clouds could totally eclipse the sun, a new entity emerged as a source of authority and illumination."
Tag clouds that eclipse the sun! There's a metaphor that really expresses how the library science crowd feels! And he goes on:
"Though folksonomy was born on an information architecture list, it was quickly hijacked by the Technorati."
Go Peter! He's single-handedly (the rest of the IA community isn't doing much) taking back pride for information architects around the world.
Read the article. It goes on like this. Great stuff.
(Oh, and yeah, web 2.0 and all that!)