Folksonomies spreading is a river, we can just steer the kayak

“To put this metaphorically, we are not driving a car, with gas, brakes, reverse and a lot of choice as to route. We are steering a kayak, pushed rapidily and monotonically down a route determined by the enviroment. We have a (very small) degree of control over our course in this particular stretch of river, and that control does not extend to being able to reverse, stop, or even significantly alter the direction w’re moving in.”
I love how Clay Shirky writes! Read the entire post on Many2Many about the fact “mass amateurization of cataloging” is going to happen anyway.

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3 Responses to this post.

  1. nourdine's Gravatar

    Posted by nourdine on 23.01.05 at 12:14 pm

    english or italian? anyway you look like a firefox guru… then could u please help me to solve the following conundrum? actually my blog sucks if u look into it with firefox! why? why? its template is so simple that I cannot even immagine what’s wrong with it!

    Thanxs! I found your url reading apophenia

  2. paolo's Gravatar

    Posted by paolo on 23.01.05 at 12:14 pm

    as i wrote in your blog:

    1.
    abbandona splinder, non produce per il tuo blog il feed rss (o almeno non lo faceva)

    2.
    il tuo sito dovrebbe essere HTML valido. ovvero scritto in un HTML corretto (in modo che un browser che rispetta gli standard lo possa capire e visualizzare)
    vedi
    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnourdine.splinder.com%2F
    ti dice tutto cio’ che c’e’ di non corretto nel tuo html
    (anche il mio sito non e’ valido, ma gli errori non sono eccessivi)

    3.
    altro?

    4.
    saluti

  3. howard's Gravatar

    Posted by howard on 23.01.05 at 12:14 pm

    splinder ha messo i feeds, sia in RSS sia in Atom

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