A paper I wrote on ontologies (and, more directly, folksonomy) for a databases class I’m taking. Summarizes much of the thought that’s out there in the blogosphere. There’s a lot more I wanted to cover, but I was space-constrained. Here’s a preliminary version, full of rushed thoughts and unpolished wordsmithing. Will upload a cleaner, more […]
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Ontologies, Taxonomies, and Folksonomies
29-Nov-04Am writing a paper on “folksonomies” as contrasted with vanilla ontologies for a databases class. Really, it’s a contrast between distributed classification vs professional annotation (which is, in turn, a microcosm of what’s happening thru the web at large–blogs vs newspapers, blah blah blah). The paper is just a short thing, 5 pages. And for […]
Tags, Relationships, Links
08-Nov-04It hit me after installing tomboy a little while ago: the current state of tag-based information representation theory, as painted by flickr, gmail, delicious, etc., is that of tags as very limited-scope metadata. What I mean is this: Given a document, say this blog entry, I have different scopes of metadata. The “date” metadata item […]
Social Software needs to Not Suck
02-Nov-04What I want for Christmas or Hope Springs Eternal tags (or non-strict-hierarchical organization system–allow nodes to have multiple parents) fuzzy or partial membership to tags/groups (do we dare? would it work?) fuzzy relationships in social networks an rss reader that isn’t just a read-only email client threads/branching in blog post comments (right now, entries themselves […]
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Blogging your Research
23-Oct-04danah, this morning, during our workshop in social software in academia, brought up blogs as a tool for PhD students. This is quite a new thing (though, given the quantity and average age of livejournallers and the like, it will be much more common and established 10 years from now). Many aspects to think about: […]
Drowning in Data
19-Oct-04“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
Wikalong
17-Sep-04Running commentary on the www implemented as wiki
reinstall
03-Aug-04Windows had been causing me too much grief. First it was the hax0rs that installed a backdoor onto my computer–which made me install a personal firewal as it would appear that ISI’s firwall is lacking… And then it was bad interaction between ZoneAlarm and Apache, causing the webserver to randomly stop functioning once in a […]
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oranges and blogging
05-May-03just ate an orange. what’s with that smell that always remains on your hands for the whole day afterwards. this time, i’m eating it before i get to sleep, maybe i’ll wake up smelling like oranges still… … … see… tonight’s entry kinda typifies my confusion with the whole blogging phenomena: why would anyone care […]