The blog assignment focuses on organizing content into two categories, Classwork and Homework, while navigating the complexities of tagging related posts. Tags serve as keywords linking content and will be refined by observing best practices from other bloggers. The goal is to provide insights on electronic media and information management.
Reading Response to: “Messiness as a Virtue”
Citation Weinberger, David. 2008. Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Holt. (Amazon) His Twitter account: twitter.com/dweinberger In the mess left by the department store sales (first order mess) and incompatibility of the patients records (second order mess) we "feel better" when they are fixed up to the original state …
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Class work: lecture notes on filtering & nothing.
1. more on filtering: Database with well organized metadata is useful if you have a closed set of information that you want to look at in detail. Information about film, movies, directors, producers... IMDB first comes to mind instead of Google. IMDB is a well organized database, it is faceted (sorted by movie, by director, …
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Class work: Search vs. Sort
To my understanding as we collect files on our computer, we are putting them in the folders, well, when we try to decide whether it is better to keep files miscellaneous and just search for the files, or of organize them into folders and sorting the files. Well, I think we could never have just …
