{"id":1208,"date":"2003-02-13T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T02:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2003\/02\/13\/more-on-reversible\/"},"modified":"2003-02-13T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2003-02-14T02:30:13","slug":"more-on-reversible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2003\/02\/13\/more-on-reversible\/","title":{"rendered":"More on reversible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One issue that <a href=\"http:\/\/aprendizdetodo.com\/\">Prentiss<\/a> has emphasized in the past is the need for adherence to a controlled vocabulary when categorizing information. I&#8217;ve wondered whether categories could be an emergent outcome of smushing a lot of data together. Well, perhaps, but we ain&#8217;t there yet. The chaos at <a href=\"http:\/\/about.reversible.org\">reversible<\/a> is evidence of that (which I contributed to with my earlier experiment&#8230;sorry). Obviously the <i>option<\/i> exists to take advantage of a useful hierarchy of categories, but the <i>obligation<\/i> does not. <\/p>\n<p>Preparatory to the appearance of RSS feeds that all the cool kids will want to link to, I&#8217;ve tooled up another CSS button:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/reversible.org\">reversible<\/a>Try Reversible: It&#8217;s confusing but fun<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><ins><i>Later:<\/i> Word from Joshua is that this will not duplicate Mark Pilgrim&#8217;s cool hack: it just makes it easy to create a sort of ad-hoc directory that points back to whatever pages you want. I haven&#8217;t asked him, but I suspect this is really almost a diversion he put together on the trail of something else.<\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One issue that Prentiss has emphasized in the past is the need for adherence to a controlled vocabulary when categorizing information. I&#8217;ve wondered whether categories could be an emergent outcome of smushing a lot of data together. Well, perhaps, but we ain&#8217;t there yet. 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