Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags - 0 views
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there is no shelf, and that there is no file system. Google can decide what goes with what after hearing from the user, rather than trying to predict in advance what it is you need to know.
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Carla Arena on 27 Jun 08This is exactly the idea of the Third order, the digital world, that things don't have the constraint of being in one single place. It can be in many different places at once. That's one there's no file system. Our "categories" are much more fluid.
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the semantics here are in the users, not in the system.
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It's all dependent on human context
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