Category guilt and more
In response to AKMA’s confession, Dave writes about feeling guilty about not using categories: When he failed to use them a few times, he felt so guilty about it that he stopped using them entirely.
Best of all, now those of us who do use tags can engage in Taggenfreude. (Sign of a meme catching on: Bad bad puns. Why? Because they’re as easy as falling off a blog.)
Jay at iCite has some trenchant comments on the article on tagging in the new issue of my newsletter. (I’ve replied in a comment.)
Dan Bricklin reflects on this and decides that software needs to take guiltlessness as a desideratum.
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Guilt is Good
Dan Bricklin picks up a thread from Shelley to AKMA and Winer on blog post categorization (David Weinberger tracks it, but also see his recent newsletter on tags and Jay’s comments) to suggest Guiltlessness as a design criteria for…