"In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies."
"I just wrote little coded notes in a flat file I used for links, #wifi or #cs or whatever. And I could just search them out, so tagging significantly predates Delicious itself."
"The social value of tags on Del.icio.us is only a happy side-effect. Even though most of the ink spilled about Del.icio.us is about the social value, it’s really not the reason why people use it."