Hiatus Concluded
January 27, 2009
It’s been awhile, dear blogland friends! And while the last three months have been no slough, I don’t have a valid excuse for abandoning you…all three of you, that is. I’m back in school again and need to finish the portfolio for which I set up this blog. Eloise and I devised a metadata schema last semester that will look nice in the technology section, I think. I learned XML for the occasion, and I’m glad I did. With such extensibility and wide use, there’s no excuse not to.
Besides the portfolio, I’ve been reading Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger, which has been on my reading list forever. As someone who’s interested in the details of search, classification and usability, the book has been a nice step back, a big picture kind of read. I do take issue with Weinberger’s polarized view of folksonomy v. taxonomy and his opinion is the former is inherently better in a digitized world. I will have to revisit this issue, though, because I’m only half way through the book.
