Card Catalogs and Search Engines
Obviously, the two concepts are deeply divided, but still pretty associated, at the same time. Clay Shirky, in his article Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links and Tags, http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html talks a pretty impressive line (actually a lot of lines- but all very interesting) about the nature of categorization and how it relates to the current state of search engines. I have to give credit where it is due: I found this article link from Peter Da Vanzo's Search Engine Blog site, http://www.searchengineblog.com/ on a May 23rd note. Not sure where he found it, but really robust stuff, much more thought provoking than the usual fare.
posted by jrotman @ 9:35 PM
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