Chapter 5

Summary:
Chapter five talks about organization by classification. It goes into depth about how things are broken down into categories that make sense. Chapter five talks about how encyclopedias are broken down and then talks about how web pages are broken down. Chapter five also talks about tagging in detail. Tagging lets each individual person put things into categories that makes sense to them.

Quotes:
"Users have uploaded over 225 million photos onto Flickr, the photo-sharing site- and are currently adding about 900,000 per day- and have applied 5.7 million different tags a total of 540 million times."

"Wikipedia had more people reading its pages than the New York Times' Web site did."

Connection:
When they were talking about tags I thought about my FA322 class. We had to post picture on to flickr and place them into the correct class, then the right assignment, finally we tagged the picture with our student ID number so the teacher could grade it. With people tagging things into categories ours would make no sense with student ID numbers.

Chapter 6

Summary:
The chapter talked about barcodes and RFID tags. The chapter talked about barcodes as smart leaves. The chapter also discussed how RFID tags are now replacing some barcodes because they can carry more information. Barcodes changed how retail business operates because it makes replacing items easier.

Quotes:
"In the third order, stamping an ID on a leaf often is what turns it into a leaf in the first place."

"There's something comforting about the sight of cards spooning in a card catalog."

"And if a West Coast scientist comes to the East Coast and catches a Sarda sarda, she'll exclaim, "Wow, look at the size of that skipjack!"

Connection:
I am very familiar with barcodes. I spent my whole summer being a checker for JC Penny. I know how barcodes go missing, don't scan, and come up unidentified all too well.