So, sorry about blogging twice within a 30 minute period, but as I was deliciousing some sites, I came across the delicious blog which claims that it now supports tags for gopher. I assumed it was an obnoxious rodent, but in fact it is not. Its a whole other internet, only not <http://> but <gopher://> Cool huh? Anyway, so I started cruising through gopher, and I stumbled across the Online Book Initiative, a gopher site (?) that has posted a few hundred authors and their various works. It reminded me of when we were talking about tags and taxonomy on Tuesday, because it is arranged exactly like a taxonomy. Every author has a folder; they are listed in alphabetical order, and within each folder are sub-folders containing works and then text. It was all so neat and organized, unlike anything one would normally find on the internet, but it was also a very small selection of the books that are actually available. Hence, it was able to be so easily labeled and categorized. You can’t search for a book by category, you have to know the author, and click on his/her folder. Looking at it makes you realize the beauty of tagging, where you can search by a keyword, and author, anything really, as long as it reminds you of the website you’re looking for.
