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Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags

Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet

I want to convince you that many of the ways we’re attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we’ve adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies.

I also want to convince you that what we’re seeing when we see the Web is actually a radical break with previous categorization strategies, rather than an extension of them.

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