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Semantic Zooming, Oh, I Thought You Said Semantic Zoning.

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: It’s pretty darn close to useful on Amazon.

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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Feature Request — Search “My History”

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 … 

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TQR — a little bit of Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification (and Put It on the Web)

This morn­ing’s dur­ing the slog up tread­mill hill I read through Wm. Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It on the Web. I’ll have a lot more to say about it in a cou­ple of days. (Beware.) This morn­ing I only want to point you to the sec­tion 4.2: Faceted Navigation: Three … 

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