Weinberger, relying on German philosopher Heidegger, says that "the meaning of a particular thing is enabled by the web of implicit meanings we call the world" (170). First, describe what he means by this.
Weinberger means that the web is a world unto itself and the meaning of individual tags, links etc. is something tangible to the world of the web. To take it out of the world would not mean what it does within. We could call going to the grocery store a link, or a hit on the location, but it does not have the same affect as going to amazon.com and buying something lets say. Meaning such as metaphor is tangible to us because we understand the hidden meaning. The internet has its own hidden meaning implicit within it that we cannot translate into this world. A Hammer, as was the example, may not be relevant to your understanding of the world, so you break down the potential uses of a hammer. Meaning for each person is individual, the reason why i look wonderwall is not the same reasons why you like or dislike the song. We may connect the hammer to nails... nails to wood, wood to a tree and the list of associations go on and on.
Second, explain how this is relevant to the third order of order.
The third order of order is bound by the physical so we do not need metadata like a card catalog. When we google a phrase, we are able to add multiple meanings to it. Kind of like ho a toaster can also be a toaster oven, but times like 10. We can do this with our own personal meaning also.
Third, draw/sketch/photoshop the following: choose a song that is important to you in some way. Draw the implicit web of meanings that make this song important to you. That is, make the implicit explicit. Ask yourself: what would a computer need to know in order to understand the relevance of this song in my life? (yes, a computer)
"Wonderwall"
Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now
Backbeat the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody feels
The way I do about you now
And all the roads we have to walk along are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
I don't know how
Because maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after all
You're my wonderwall
Today was gonna be the day?
But they'll never throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you're not to do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now
And all the roads that lead to you were winding
And all the lights that light the way are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
I don't know how
I said maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after all
You're my wonderwall
I said maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after an
You're my wonderwall
Said maybe
You're gonna be the one that saves me
You're gonna be the one that saves me
You're gonna be the one that saves me
I love how you connected a song straight to your personal life. As this song plays you picture moments in your life that you find correlation with! This is one of my favorite songs and I can see how you would make a connection to this song with pictures. I thought it was clever to use pictures from your life instead of making a map!
ReplyDeleteWonderwall=great song. I like how you made yours purely personal and left open for discussion. In all honesty I have no idea why you choose those images for this song, but to you the mean something.
ReplyDeleteWhen you mentioned catalogs one thing came to my mind; the old library i used to go to when i was studying in mx. I remember doing research whats incredibly hard using those dumbs catalogs. Today, we use computer in our libraries and it makes academic research so much easier.
ReplyDeleteYou might want to go back and reread this section as you're not quite on point with the meaning of the quote (and the relevance of implicit v. explicit). Thanks for the example.
ReplyDeleteI think BrichNorm really captures the hear of one of the problems of meta data in the third order of order. These pictures are not at all related to wonder wall for anyone but you. So if you were trying to add meta data about wonder wall it would not make sense to anyone but you. Meta data is lest restrictive then other directory methods but it is not without its own problems.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with what others have said. I have no idea why you choose those images, they must have some implicit meaning to you in relation to that song. The thing with meta data, is, it can really be anything. It's just more information (data) to describe other information (data).
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