can we use semantics to understand the big ideas at Defrag?but what about perspective: whose perspective is the right way to look at it?yours, mine, the social view?traditional semantics has been top-down, imposed by some central authority, authoritativeold style: one true ontology of everythingslightly newer style: a collaborate agreement on things, like in Wikipediawhat if we model individual perspectives, still using semantics?
Alex Wright: humans are natural taxonomists, they have a cognitive disposition to organize the world hierarchicallyRich Skrenta, Blekko: “there are a limited number of things in the world” but lots of pages