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20.01.05
Tags and categories
David Weinberger praises tagged web-entries. He writes ’First, categories are not tags. I’m guessing that the average number of categories used by any single blogger is in the 3-15 range. Many of us want to keep our categories broad because they are intended to help a reader see all of our posts, and we want to be inclusive rather than fine-grained.’
I don’t see a difference between tags and categories. David is also contradicting himself, interchanging these two terms. I still believe, categorisation is doomed to fail, since categories are permanently changing and who wants to edit his entries he wrote 4 years ago. I think, a full-text retrieval with intelligent categorisation is much more flexible and dynamic. However, we have still to wait to see a good working system.
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