Ontology

Directly below this paragraph is the hierarchical ontology I created for this week's blog post. I decided to categorize by what visual elements were present in each blog post. It took me a few tries before I decided to categorize things this way and it was not an easy decision. I wanted to create categories that would not have any cross categorization.

Blog posts with photographs


Blog posts with photographs I took

i. Disintermediation

Blog posts with photographs others took

Virus
Wiki-editing


Blog posts with other visuals

Blog posts with videos

Prosumption


Blog posts without videos or photographs

Cookies
Social Networking

I found adding tags to be a much easier task as I only had to think about what was in the post that I was currently tagging and I did not need to think of how it might relate to others posts.

I do think that tags are much more useful than hierarchical ontology as they allow for much more flexibility and more serendipitous discoveries.

Wiki Editing

For the assignment, I chose to edit the entry for the British science fiction series, Doctor Who. I chose to add one word to the description of the TARDIS . The word I chose to add was telepathic because the TARDIS has telepathic circuits . So far, no one has undone the edit despite my conscious decision not include a cititation even though I could. Perhaps people have just not noticed it since it is a minor edit and it is correct.

I was surprised at how easy it was to edit most topics. Some topics had locks, but most are availabe for anyone with computer access to change as they see fit. It is not surprising that people take advantage of this to not only provide differing opinions and update information but also to spread disinformation as a way to amuse theirselves.