Once in a while it is a good and refreshing thing to revisit some of the classics. In this case a paper that I consider to be a primary lens for looking at information seeking behaviours. Something struck me as I was rereading Marcia Bates’ “The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques for the On-Line …
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Just the usual reading too quickly this a.m. and I got semantic zoning instead of semantic zooming. On reflection semantic zoning may be more useful concept. Think of sematic zoning like county zoning. You know, urban planning. Perhaps (?) our classification schemes need to be a bit more like a city. Some bits of a …
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Tagging had gotten everywhere. It’s the latest “gotta have” for your website. Gotta have tagging and one of those cool cloud things in the right hand column. But tag clouds are often just so much noise. Can’t tagging be put to better use?Did you know that there is tagging in Amazon? Six months ago it …
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Last week ago I wrote about the big blue bin virus that struck our neighborhood. While I was pondering that particular post over my morning tea I vaguely remembered seeing something interesting along the same lines a day or two ago- or rather a possible explanation of the mechanism that causes weird behaviors like putting …
