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categorisation

Categorisation (and its discontents)

I have a few problems with the way that categorisation works in blogs. The current approach is typified by a filing cabinet approach: things exist in a category, and can exist secondarily in other categories. This is all well and good, but it seems to me that this kind of noun-based classification misses out on vast tracts of the kinds of relationships between what we write and the links between them and the wider world (which is essentially what categorisation is about, after all: we map our mental model into terms which other people can use to help search our stuff).

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