MLPs for a Meta-Web

In the queue

• Co-Evolution of NGOs and Interactive Technology (via rre)
• The nonsense of knowledge management

Reactive Interfaces

• Flamenco, a smarter searching interface is overwhelming, but interesting. Presenting multiple avenue to browse from each search result.
• BBC facelift hilights BBC’s subtle use of color over time to reward return visitors.

Facetted Classification

Bottoms Up: Designing complex, adaptive systems, from the co-author of the Polar Bear book.- On: Why Yahoo inspired taxonomy build is a bad idea, that generates unusable results.

• Says: Facetted classification is about changing questions. In taxonomy based systems the central question is “where do I put this?” but in facetted (bottom up) approch you ask “how do I describe this?”.
• Facetted classification can also be thought of as a database where ” facets are fields, [and] controlled vocabularies are acceptable values.”

See also - EmergentArchitecture

• Ontology Development 101
• A Taxonomy Primer