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The Folksonomy Edition
It's all dependent on human context. This is what we're starting to see with del.icio.us, with Flickr, with systems that are allowing for and aggregating tags. The signal benefit of these systems is that they don't recreate the structured, hierarchical categorization so often forced onto us by our physical systems. Instead, we're dealing with a sig... See more
Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
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For us, it’s been important to foreground what people are doing on Are.na, i.e. the thing . “Organizing” is not the word that I usually use when I describe that action, but when other people make software that is about organizing, a large part of the UI and UX design tends to attempt to remove friction.
For a lot of developers or people who are buil... See more
For a lot of developers or people who are buil... See more
Are.na Is Where We Go to Find Ourselves Online
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What the catalogers provide is different than traditional press coverage or financial investment. They are dealers of agency. Through a combination of tools, information, and imagination they help draw a map around new communities.
If you ask them to describe what they do, you’ll get a meandering answer. As Brand says: “I find things and found thin... See more
If you ask them to describe what they do, you’ll get a meandering answer. As Brand says: “I find things and found thin... See more
David Lang • The Catalogers
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Cataloging and organizing the world is a deeply human endeavor. Before we can unify ideas together, or provide some sort of large conceptual framework, we need to at least have gathered and organized the facts and data. Creating a catalog or a list involves frameworks and organization, but it is also at peace with the grab-bag and the miscellaneous. It is a means for creating order while still being wary of too much order—or at least comfortable sitting with a bit of a mess.
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The Internet offers us the first major opportunity to introduce new, digitally-native information architectures that improve our understanding of the world through added context and relation.
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #55
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