“And so the chaotic internet suddenly begins to align into constellations of context”.
Back here somewhere in 2005 I was hung up on the concept of context.
Well, it’s recently been surfacing again and I serendipitously came across a clipping I made back in beginning of 2006 as I was thinking about it back then. Somehow it seemed timely.
“CONSTELLATIONS OF CONTEXT FROM CHAOS”
David Weinberger, co-author of the seminal Cluetrain Manifesto and author of an [then] upcoming book about tagging called Everything is Miscellaneous, explains that when knowledge was imprisoned on paper, it had to be stored in one place, under one address, usually with the one-dimensional Dewey decimal system. But thanks to the internet and tags, knowledge is now freed from the bonds of paper and can be found from many directions: you could discover this page online via any number of Google searches, or through bloggers’ links, or because somebody tagged it under “tagging” or “blather” or both. Then you could use services like Del.icio.us or Technorati.com to find more, now related content filed under those same tags. And so the chaotic internet suddenly begins to align into constellations of context.
[clipped from www.buzzmachine.com
Guardian column: Tagging; Jeff Jarvis
Monday January 2, 2006
The Guardian]
Emphasis added.
More later maybe.
Dave