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June 16, 2004
Library of Babel
Jason Ryder wrote about Blog Taxonomy about a year ago, but using Bloglines for only a couple of days has made it clear that it's hard to determine in advance what blogs you want to read.
Gideon Rosenblatt says in this Taxonomy Primer entry, that taxonomies faded a bit as full-text search technologies, "matured to the point when they became really useful." Taxonomies are allegedly coming back -- I know we're using them inside Sun. But even if we do solve the problem of shifting contextuality so those who know what they want to retrieve can find it more quickly, how the heck do we help ourselves when we don't know what we want to retrieve?
Trial and error. All I need to find what I didn't know I was looking for is infinite time. Or it'll be like the rest of the web, and infinite monkeys will eventually reduce the number of paths taken.
Posted by Mark at June 16, 2004 05:06 PM