2009-01-31

The power to tag is the power to control

This temporary proscription of large segments of the web to users of the Google search engine vividly illustrates the application of the power of ontologizing. Whole segments of our collective electronic corpus can be made obscure or brought to the top of our societal awareness merely by changing a few bits on an electronic tag. Librarians of the world unite! Yours is the power to [re-]organize.

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