{"id":117,"date":"2007-08-21T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2007-08-21T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T14:40:00","slug":"117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/117\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything is Miscellaneous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished reading <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Everything is Miscellaneous<\/span> by David Weinberger.  It wasn&#8217;t as insightful as I had hoped; but the main reason I read it is because it mentions Endeca (the software company I worked at this summer).<\/p>\n<p>The main point was that categorizations, taxonomies, groupings, clusterings (whatever you want to call them) can increasingly be designed for any particular purpose.  This is in contrast with the &#8220;one-size-fits-all&#8221; approach of the past (physical stores, dewey decimal system, database columns).  I put the emphasis on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">design<\/span> because designing an ordering system has the same essential properties as designing anything else.  What&#8217;s really cool is when the ordering system can be designed automatically, on the fly, in response to user input &#8212; e.g. faceted browsing.<\/p>\n<p>Next: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">On Intelligence<\/span> by Jeff Hawkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished reading Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger. It wasn&#8217;t as insightful as I had hoped; but the main reason I read it is because it mentions Endeca (the software company I worked at this summer). The main point was that categorizations, taxonomies, groupings, clusterings (whatever you want to call them) can increasingly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/117\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Everything is Miscellaneous&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}