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Fear of wicked world domination revealed in del.icio.us tag labeling ;-) World Outline - aka Dave Winer's Master Plan to Structurize the Web with OPML directory representation http://del.icio.us/BillyG/OPML Speaking of tags, it occurred to me today that our brains tag things, too. What made me think of it: I stated as an absolute fact that a person attended a particular NYU masters program. Later I checked myself, realized I was wrong, and why I'd remembered it wrong. Several weeks ago, I took in the info that this guy was in a Parson's masters program. Completely subconsciously I must have thought, "Oh, like Nan" (a friend who took her bachelor's at Parsons and master's at NYU). The tag I unknowingly assigned to the data was not "Parsons," it was "like Nan." So when it came time to retrieve the data, my tag worked just fine, but I had input the wrong tag. Our brains are funny and endlessly fascinating, aren't they. Found in my podcast's latest visitors report tonight:
Wonder what OPML Agent 8 is. Does it have anything to do with Barbara Feldman? |