Ontology is Overrated - Categories, Links, and Tags
Today I want to talk about categorization, and I want to convince you that a lot of what we think we know about categorization is wrong. In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies.
- Web Address: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
- Short Name: whuzobik
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- Saved by Harald Kirschner on May 02, 2008.
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tenementpalm | Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags |
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Clay Shirky's 2005 talks on ontology condensed. First 2 chapters of Everything is Misc. basically come from here. |
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20 days ago. |
Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source |
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icelab | Clay Shirky: Ontology is Overrated |
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It comes down ultimately to a question of philosophy. Does the world make sense or do we make sense of the world? If you believe the world makes sense, then anyone who tries to make sense of the world differently than you is prese... |
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Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source |
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pab | Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags |
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reference from Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? |
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November 6, 2007 |
The only group that can categorize everything is everybody (Clay Shirky in 2005). |
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May 2, 2006 |
Shirky's piece on ontologies, based on two talks given in the spring of 2005 -- one at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The ri... |
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