[Sigia-l] Re: Blasphemy: Ontology is Overrated?

James Melzer jamesmelzer at gmail.com
Wed May 11 09:16:56 EDT 2005


<librarian sarcasm>
Peter, are you sure that's the same guy? I mean, without authority
control there is no way to tell.
</librarian sarcasm>

~ James

On 5/11/05, Peter Morville <morville at semanticstudios.com> wrote:
> Clay's last name is actually Shirky, not Shirkey, though there are 554 web
> pages about "Clay Shirkey." According to Shirkey, I guess the authors behind
> those 554 pages must have something in common beyond their use of
> language...perhaps a shared attitude towards the false dichotomy of tagging
> and classification :-)
> 
> 
> Peter Morville
> President, Semantic Studios
> www.semanticstudios.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Samantha Bailey
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> 
> > While Shirkey has a point that we can
> > glean values and similarities through language, I think it's a mistake to
> > assume that people wo are like minded will think & speak with the same
> vocabulary--in reality we often don't.
> 
> sb
> 
> Samantha Bailey | samantha at baileysorts.com
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