Chapter 8 & 9

Chapter 8:

I found chapter 8 very interesting. It talked about things that I have always wondered myself. Like, what the purposes of some signs are and even what I see on the internet really is. The information that is on the web does not always tell you everything when it comes to tagging and this chapter discussed how we may not always be getting everything but we are getting a variety of information from one thing.

With the web being an open source this is much more of an issue now. I also enjoy the explicit and implicit information that was talked about. The implicit is what I am always thinking about when I see things online. The what if's or the information behind the subject. When he discussed the explicit being too obvious at times that it makes our society look dumb, I completely agreed. I see signs all the time that I dont think, have a point because they are to obvious. I feel like the implicit information is the real descriptive information. It is much more than just tags.

Chapter 9:

This chapter was also very interesting. Its about how things may not seem organized but they are in some certain order for some other use. Then, the more information that comes in, the more jumbled and mixed up the information gets. Information is always needed to be ordered by someone for something.

I find this chapter to be very personal to some. Everyone has their own way of organization. Whether it is throwing all their photos into just one folder titled "images" or if it is making numerous folders within folders giving each item its own place. This is where the web has some issues. If people do things differently, then how should it be ordered online? The web was built from people just "post it. Just link to it. Click. Done" said Weinberger. With all these posts and links everywhere, how is the organized human supposed to find the information they are looking for. Organization is key, but each person has their own way of doing it.