Weinberger im Radio über Tagging
NPR hatte eine Drei-Minuten-Einführung von David Weinberger in das Thema Tagging im Programm. Die - wie immer wunderbar erzählte und überhaupt furchtbar anschauliche - Sendung gibts als MP3 und eine Textfassung in Weinbergers Weblog:
(Unlike) at Google, you’ll find (at del.icio.us) the pages that other humans have decided are ABOUT your topic.
That’s the real change in about-ness. Consider another tagging site, Flickr (…). You might tag the snapshot you took of the guards at Buckingham Palace as “London” and “Buckingham.” But I might come across it and tag it as “Big Funny Hats” because I’m working on a paper about fashion mistakes. You and I don’t have to agree on what your photo is about. This takes classification and about-ness out of the hands of authors and experts. Now it’s up to us readers to decide what something is about.
Not only does this let us organize stuff in ways that make more sense to us, but we no longer have to act as if there’s only one right way of understanding everything, or that authors and other authorities are the best judges of what things are about. And that’s a big lesson.
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