I've just learned that my blog is being studied in group assignment on knowledge taxonomies in a class at McGill. One of the students just contacted me with some questions about my process. This is my response.

I stumbled upon Beth Shankle's piece on Google's reputation system. I'm not so interested in Google or disembodied reputation systems, but I have to mention the surprise I had when Quicken started asking me to rate the people in my checkbook register.