[Sigia-l] biased taxonomies

[Manu Sharma]

Harpers.org is designed by the ftrain guy, Paul Ford. Just stumbled
across this article where he discusses the site's taxonomy

"Everything is in the Taxonomy

Harpers.org makes almost no distinction between data and metadata. Any
block of text can have multiple blocks of text living inside of it (as
when the Weekly Review contains events), and these blocks in turn can
contain multiple blocks, and so forth. What this means in practice is
that in addition to events and facts, I can add any arbitrary kind of
data to the site. Links, Litigation, Questions, Answers, Lies, Photos,
Crimes, any sort of boundary you can think of. By linking from inside
of these boundaries to pages in the taxonomy, the taxonomy pages know
to automatically list and sort them, whatever they are."

I won't pretend to understand this. But if this interests you, the rest
of the article is here:

http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html

Manu.