During the 2001 recession, I decided to teach again. After 15 years as a taxonomist and business systems analyst, I returned to an earlier career. I love teaching and learning about social studies and public policy. But my skills as a taxonomist infused my teaching. I became a fan of Bloom’s taxonomy. Listing facts is step 1 on Bloom’s taxonomy, sorting is step 2, Categorizing is step 4, Analysis is step 5, Empathy is step 6 and Synthesis is step 7. And you have to move through each step to move on to the next. I developed a treasure chest of graphic organizers tools that I used with my students. But I also discovered that I was a taxonomist/ontologist , and when I was given a chance to return to taxonomy work for online systems and to learn semantic web and autoclassification, I jumped at the chance. This blog is to provide information about the work of building a taxonomies in this brave new world of social networks, XFN, RDF, subject, object, predicate.