Another message from radio K-RAP. All about how IT departments need to give up on rigid control of data structures and open up to folksonomies so that reliable business applications will be complete impossible to write.
I don't know what he's smoking, but I've found that the majority of IT shops I've seen have had trouble with data structures that aren't rigorous enough. "Folksonomies" are associated with roach motel systems (del.icio.us) where people put content in but don't get it out. (I find that one of my pages got 150 bookmarks from del.icio.us, but only about 10 visitors.) These serve the needs of "Web 2.0" corporations that want to get massive amounts of content cheap, but they aren't so great if you want to get something done with the content.
If this kind of thinking gets more prevalent in IT on planet Earth, I've either got to switch fields or move to Mars.
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paul_houle replied ago:
Another message from radio K-RAP. All about how IT departments need to give up on rigid control of data structures and open up to folksonomies so that reliable business applications will be complete impossible to write.
I don't know what he's smoking, but I've found that the majority of IT shops I've seen have had trouble with data structures that aren't rigorous enough. "Folksonomies" are associated with roach motel systems (del.icio.us) where people put content in but don't get it out. (I find that one of my pages got 150 bookmarks from del.icio.us, but only about 10 visitors.) These serve the needs of "Web 2.0" corporations that want to get massive amounts of content cheap, but they aren't so great if you want to get something done with the content.
If this kind of thinking gets more prevalent in IT on planet Earth, I've either got to switch fields or move to Mars.
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