[plug] Gmail Accounts

[Shayne O'Neill]

Simple example here: Compare the success of HTTP to the technically
superior gopher. (Note, we are talking transport NOT presentation here).

Pans out the non heirachical nature of the web absolutely killed gopher.
And thats a shame, but it does indicate that intuitively people do NOT
necessarily think heirachically.

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Shayne O'Neill. http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Trevor Phillips wrote:

> On Monday 21 June 2004 12:35, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> >
> > The disadvantage is that it doesn't lend itself to a hierarchical
> > structure and a plethora of tags may be just as confusing as a
> > bucket-load of folders.
>
> Heirarchical structures are overrated. (Nice broad statement, eh? ^_^)
> I used to be a big advocate of heirarchies (I wrote a task-management system
> from scratch because the existing one didn't have any heirarchy), and they
> definitely have their place. However, through use of such systems, as well as
> the design, doing a quick keyword search is often much more useful than
> rummaging through categories.
>
> As an example, Murdoch have this quite powerful Links Index. You want
> something, and it's important, it'll be in there. It's heirarchical dozens of
> different ways, categorised, etc, etc... And most people (including myself)
> just chuck a keyword into the search box.
>
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