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Emergent Taxonomies


Ben Hammersley: Perhaps taxonomies should be entirely emergent...What if we just forget about taxonomies altogether and go with trackbacks.  How about Second Order Trackbacks?  Sounds to me like TrackBack Threading.

Personally, I've not yet quite convinced about the value of predetermined taxonomies.  I'd rather see a site which supported ad hoc queries than one which is extensively categorized (similarly, I prefer Google over Yahoo).

Update: Ben continues this discussion here, but I have no record of a trackback.  Bug?  Snub?