That's official, U.[lik] is part of an industry : Social Cataloging ... so, as Tim (the founder of Librarything) we are social catalogers and we can be part of the cartel (that's the funniest part of the post)
We're an industry now, or a dwarf industry anyway. Some of us compete, but that doesn't prevent automakers from getting together. We too can conspire to fix prices! Seriously, we ought to have some things to talk about. At the very least we can keep an eye on the competition. [my bookmarks are available @ delicious under "comps"]
And the funniest is that our newly born industry has already its plague : it's called derived from infoprexification ;-) (i am very happy to have added Bokardo RSS feed a month ago / thks)
Focus on people’s problems, not information
The danger of infoprefixation is that it recasts human problems in terms of information. It’s a subtle, but detrimental, shift because we risk losing sight of the reasons why people wanted or needed the information in the first place. If we see the world as a whole lot of information that needs to be catalogued, shared, and organized, then the problem becomes one of organization, not one that is based on the lives of the people we design for. It also moves us away from the rigor of design, which is to continually ask: Why do people do what they do?
I hope that U.[lik] algorithm will help organize things... at least that's the reason we've built it. A parallele came up while reading both posts: last.fm is organizing/socializing the naspter/e-mule libraries. I hope will do the same for the rest of the entertainment cataloging market.
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