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Interview with Mozilla hacker Mike Beltzner
As noted in MozillaZine: here is an interview with Mike Beltzner, the "user experience lead" for Mozilla, done by David Tenser. "Weve spent the past two decades promoting a hierarchical (or spatial containment) desktop metaphor for computer filing systems. It would be a disservice to many of our users to replace it completely. There are, however, significant advantages to tagging systems, especially in terms of building a system which defies classical ontology (for more on those advantages, see Shirky: Ontology is Overrated Categories, Links, and Tags.) Adding tagging capabilities to bookmarks can be done in a way that is based in the existing user bases conceptual (hierarchical) model, yet extends it to add richer interaction possibilities."
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Interview with Mozilla hacker Mike Beltzner Posted Dec 21, 2005 23:35 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link] Well, of course.
Hierarchies are a *browsing* tool.
Tags are a *searching* tool.
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