I thought I’d done the virtues of tagging to death, here and here. But there’s still more and it involves references to Aristotle and Plato. Anyone still reading? David Weinberger (of Cluetrain Manifesto fame) responds to a piece critical of the folksonomy, tagging approach to classification by Elaine Peterson in D-Lib magazine. I’ll paraphrase loosely. Peterson gives [...]
November 8, 2006
Get ready for a new acronym (or is it a mnemonic?): SLATES. It’s used to describe the building blocks of Enterprise 2.0 applications. The expanded, expensive report based on Tim O’Reilly’s What Is Web 2.0? essay introduces some new ideas around the subject (free excerpt here). But what is SLATES?* According to Dion Hinchcliffe, it’s this: SLATES [...]
September 29, 2006
I was asked about non-linear search and said I’d give it a go. (The question comes from Simon Collister, who I am sure has a few ideas of his own up his sleeve. But since he wrote a fab post about tagging, which in turn fuelled my own effort on the subject, it’s definitely my turn [...]
November 20, 2006