The document discusses the concept of miscellaneous and defines it as items that are diverse and lack a clear categorization. It notes that creating precise taxonomies for organizing information is an expensive and time-consuming process. As an alternative, it advocates for a more flexible approach that allows items to have multiple tags, loses some nesting capabilities but makes information more accessible, and gives up rigid control over organization.

1. Everything is
Miscellaneous
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2. 1. Find a partner
2. Without using outside sources
3. Come up with a working definition of miscellaneous.

3. Creating taxonomies
is expensive, tedious,
and time consuming.

4. Creating taxonomies
is expensive.

5. Social Tags don’t
create trees. They’re
messy, uncontrolled,
and inconsistent.

6. This can create accuracy
problems:
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7. You can also lose nesting capabilities.
Example: search for restaurant
reviews in:
• 98686
• Vancouver, WA
• Clark County
• Hazel Dell
• Salmon Creek

8. Filter on the way out,
not on the way in.

9. Put each leaf on as
many branches as
possible.

10. Everything is
metadata and
everything can be a
label.

11. Give up control.