The Old Name For Tags?
November 7th, 2006K: What was that thing we used to talk about before “tagging”?
A: Um… keywords?
K: No, fancier
A: Topic maps?
… searching ensues …
K: Faceted classification!
Blog posts tagged "ia"
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February 7, 2007
⇒ Valleywag: HOWTO: Achieve blog nirvana.Best use of Venn diagrams, evah!
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January 30, 2007
⇒ Is there any living, breathing example of a taxonomic approach working?.Scaling to keep-up with the hyper-efficiency we see in peer-production systems? Anyone?
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January 16, 2007
⇒ Jeff Veen: Designing Google Reader’s trends.I want GReader trends without using GReader. Want it sooo bad. I’ve been talking a bit lately about my ideal aggregator which by default shows nothing but trends. (And I still MeasureMap!)
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(Aside, aggregator, dashboard, data, design, google, google reader, ia, jeffveen, lifetracker, trends, visualization)
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August 8, 2006
⇒ Boxes and Arrows Event Calendar.Attractive calendar of “interesting web-related events”. In Rails.
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(Aside calendar, calendaring, design, events, ia, inspiration, rails, web2.0)
Netflix Sparklines
March 15th, 2005Like many geeks I secretly covet Tufte’s serenely assured design sense, and fetishize his pronouncements. That said, most sparkline implementations I’ve seen have left me confused. The sparklines that Nat is generating of Netflix rental data are different. They’re great. Great in the sense that they’re small, and trivial, communicate exactly what they’re supposed to do.
Looking at my last 16 months 
of rental history , you can see that I almost always spend on an average more per movie then I would have at the corner video store ($3/video). Either I’m a sucker, or am I getting some other value out of it. Either way, that itty bitty graph packs an amazing amount of info in.
And he’s got a service setup where you can generate your own.
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March 12, 2005
⇒ Sparklines of you Netflix rental history.Black lines you’re saving money over the corner video story, red lines you’re losing. Very sweet.
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January 28, 2005
⇒ Researchers Map The Sexual Network Of An Entire High School.Incredibly (as in I don’t believe it) heteronormative. Pretty pictures though.
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(Aside gender, ia, sex, visualization)
Tagging isn’t Classifying, And Other Uses of Tags
January 20th, 2005People are still too stiff and rigid with their tagging technique. Loosen up. You don’t have to find the “right category” to put something into, that is part of the tyranny and inflexibility of a classification scheme that we’re trying to get away from. Don’t tell me what it is, the “truth” of it as it were. Tell my why it matters.
For example I use the tag “inspiration” to keep track of ideas I want to steal, or think about more on my various projects. (inspiration+redesign are my first notes towards a Magpie re-design)
Variations on toread, and *toread are in wide use as useful meta-tags, and a handful of people are using variants to track specific research projects, or tasks.
Marnie is experimenting with the tag nptech to build a community of non-profit tech workers, we’re using a different tag for the our anarchist tech work, and there are a handful of bibliographies being organized around a specific indicator tag.
And lastly don’t be afraid to build combos. One of the key ways tags work is the set logic of multiple tags. They’re your links on redesign inspiration, javascript usability, Boston bakeries, or Photoshop books. Much like with wikis, the meaning arises not from the individual components, but when you ram them together to indicate a single new concept. (and I won’t even make you use CamelCase)
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December 1, 2004
⇒ Building a Metadata-Based Website.Boxes and Arrows
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June 23, 2004
⇒ How Websites Learn.I’m currently reading ‘How Buildings Learn’ and it is very good.
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(Aside architecture, books, ia)
