brad said:
For stuff that has been created in the last five minutes or even fifteen months, tags are a fantastic means of categorizing content.
perhaps we should define our terms. do you think what i'm using is "tags"?
But for anything that has survived longer than that and should be preserved, a solid cataloging regime should be used, supervised by folks who know what they are doing.
that's an interesting postulate. at least until we ask about where this "solid cataloging regime" is, and who among us is the "folks who know what they are doing" who should be "supervising"... i dunno, i guess the rest of us, presumably. you seem to be laboring under the impression that there are a fleet of highly-trained employees waiting for your leadership, and will jump to the task as soon as they receive instructions... i'm laying out a system that _i_ can create, all by _myself_, if necessary, which can be deployed easily, using software that i will write myself, all by myself, which i am _certain_ will have some usefulness to some end-users out there, without imposing any requirements on p.g. as a whole, and thus is totally "non-exclusive", which means that you are free to do the same thing, and our two methodologies can compete on the level playing-field of real-life users... so, have at it, my friend, have at it... :+)
But I'm sorry. A Zen ML approach to cataloging? That dog don't hunt.
then i shouldn't be able to come home with any birds. right? so let us see who can actually feed the end-users and who is left standing at the chalkboard in front of an empty classroom while they go hungry, shall we? ;+) the proof will be in the usage. -bowerbird