Intranet Journal: The Database and
Intranet Journal: The Database and the Joke David Weinberger: While a database lets you find what you know is there, jokes are about discovering what you didn't expect. If we were only looking up what we knew was there, we wouldn't be so excited about the Web. It's the discovery promised in jokes that gives the Web its charge... The joke form of information -- discovery of links, human voices telling stories to delight one another -- draws us to the Web like a fire on a cold night. Without the joking form of information, the Web would just be a database.- elearningpost: Serendipitous learning
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