The faceted, messy world of folk/tag/free/ethnoclassification seems to be a natural fit for zoomable user-interfaces, or ZUIs… or Zooeys*.
The latest in Flash-to-Flickr interfaces for Tag browsing by Felix Turner does a particularly nice job of using mouse-gesture, zooming layers and just good, tasteful visual design.
Here’s a grab for the tag "London" for instance:
* Zeitgeistfully, in the new film of HHG2TG, Trillian is played by a Zooey
I like the fact it’s wonky..
wonky is friendly, wonky is casual, wonky is fun.