2008年7月27日 星期日

fishdexing: index like fish

I downloaded essay from the site because its lines caught me. It said one way to smart up, or smarting the web is to have tons of dead fishes pouring into it; called ‘fishdexing’. If there are enough stupid things, it will grow smart itself.

How come?

Chaos theory.

Because those are not real fishes, they are ideas, innovative constructs. Have there been at any time known in history that ideas are just like floating in the air, in the ocean, visually for you to grasp, to interpret in your own specific self brain? Not on books the hard medium anymore ! There would be so many vehicles that significations are infinite. The more we flush ideas down, the sooner we get great compositions otherwise wouldn’t have dreamt of.

When I saw it, the so-called web semantics seems like history, mere line-by-line coding to make a mechanical unit move. It becomes clear that there is no need to make semantic rules to index the web, just let people tag or index as be. They think they are cool in tagging, but it’s just a historical chalking, recollecting lexicon. The capability of relating the disorder or unordered to create novel significations is the real informatics at work.

A larger brain. A greater collective consciousness, tangible.

I know this is good stuff as soon as I saw it. I wonder what this site was, so I paused to find out how I was redirected to this. Soon I saw some strange images which resembled ultra-sound reflection. A figure, maybe.

'Listen to me.' It starts to broadcast to me.

Now? Suddenly I am aware I am not recalling past memory.

'Thou shalt not temptst thy lord.'

What, are you talking to me? Is this the site of the article?

'You think this is a joke again? No, pay attention. The so-called tag cloud at your times is a suggestion of foam metaphor such as that at the quantum level.'