Thomas Vander Wal

[2] His work has primarily dealt with the Web and with information design and structure especially in the context of social technology.

He has also attended the Center for Medieval Renaissance Studies at Oxford and holds a MPP from Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute.

It refers to taxonomies created by users applying their own tags to pieces of information (including articles, pictures, and websites).

Instead of focusing on very large and relatively public social spaces on the internet, the Personal InfoCloud represents a desire to use the internet to connect to a small group of people on a more personal level, and keep specific information accessible to that group.

He is a columnist at KM World,[9] writes on his own blog “Off the Top” and he has worked for the INDUS Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland, is a member of the Founding Leadership Council for The Information Architecture Institute, and the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project (WaSP).