- Sitting at my desk
- Excited about a tasty dinner tonight
- Ready to get started at The Fool.
Anyway, if you care, my Twitter page is here.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
I Give Up!
I don't think I can fight it any longer. I'm going to have to start using Twitter again. It seems as if everyone is using it now, even if I still believe that no one really cares about what I'm doing at any given moment during the day. I still think Twitter's a great tool for people going on trips, etc. I just don't believe that anyone really cares that I'm:
Anyway, if you care, my Twitter page is here.
Anyway, if you care, my Twitter page is here.
Another Wesch Great
Here's another great video from Michael Wesch (see previous post):
Talk about a great way to virally advertise Digital Ethnography at KSU. If you want to study this, where do you think your first choice would be?
Talk about a great way to virally advertise Digital Ethnography at KSU. If you want to study this, where do you think your first choice would be?
Categories Don't Mean Anything
A great new video is flying around the Interwebs, by Michael Wesch:
It's all about tagging now.
The other day, I was asked by a coworker to explain the difference between categories and tags. After trying to explain it for a couple minutes, the ultimate conclusion from the coworker was that a category and tag are essentially the same. That's really not true. The best way I can describe a tag versus a category is:
A Tag:
A Category:
It seems to me that categories are obsolete in today's environment. Even for this blog post, I'm given the option by WordPress to categorize AS WELL as tag the post based on the topic of my discussion. My vote is that we get rid of categories. We really don't need them anymore, right?
Duncan Riley at the TechCrunch blog says that information has been devolving for the past 12 years. I disagree. It seems to me that information has needed to become less categorized due to the way we're able to access information now using search, etc. If we're able to find the information that we're seeking more quickly and with a higher success rate, isn't this an improvement? Why does he call it a devolution?
By the way, if you haven't seen Wesch's other famous video, you can view it below:
It's all about tagging now.
The other day, I was asked by a coworker to explain the difference between categories and tags. After trying to explain it for a couple minutes, the ultimate conclusion from the coworker was that a category and tag are essentially the same. That's really not true. The best way I can describe a tag versus a category is:
A Tag:
- Describes a piece of information
- Doesn't classify a piece of information
A Category:
- Also describes a piece of information
- Places information into a particular classification.
It seems to me that categories are obsolete in today's environment. Even for this blog post, I'm given the option by WordPress to categorize AS WELL as tag the post based on the topic of my discussion. My vote is that we get rid of categories. We really don't need them anymore, right?
Duncan Riley at the TechCrunch blog says that information has been devolving for the past 12 years. I disagree. It seems to me that information has needed to become less categorized due to the way we're able to access information now using search, etc. If we're able to find the information that we're seeking more quickly and with a higher success rate, isn't this an improvement? Why does he call it a devolution?
By the way, if you haven't seen Wesch's other famous video, you can view it below:
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