Escaping categories

Just a quote from danah boyd:

Our lives have started to escape categories.

The post is actually about experiences on topical vs. personal blogging. Jack Vinson has a follow-up on shifting interests, forgetting and categorisation.

I’m thinking of some examples from my study at Microsoft, but this will have to wait (mainly because work is hard as I’m less than 24 hours away from my long awaited vacation :)

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/10/21.html#a1700; comments are here.

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Tagged as: blog writing, knowledge mapping, ontologies