{"id":806,"date":"2006-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/08\/23\/744\/"},"modified":"2006-08-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T22:00:00","slug":"744","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/08\/23\/744\/","title":{"rendered":"Del.icio.us is a database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2006\/08\/22.html#a1511\" title=\"Jon Udell: Del.icio.us is a database\">Del.icio.us is a database<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Although it&#8217;s intuitively obvious to me, I suspect that most people don&#8217;t yet appreciate how easily, and powerfully, tagging systems can work as databases for personal (yet shareable) information management.<\/p>\n<p>Del.icio.us isn&#8217;t simply backed by a database, it can function as a database to which you add (a lot of) queryable columns.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] It strikes me that there&#8217;s a sweet spot somewhere between this shoestring approach and the likes of Dabble DB, an application that offers powerful web-based data management. Consider how dBase and later Access were overkill for most people&#8217;s recipe lists and address books, and how 1-2-3 and Excel wound up meeting the need instead. Tag systems might turn out to be the spreadsheets of modern information management.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell &#8211; Del.icio.us is a database: &#8222;Although it&#8217;s intuitively obvious to me, I suspect that most people don&#8217;t yet appreciate how easily, and powerfully, tagging systems can work as databases for personal (yet shareable) information management. Del.icio.us isn&#8217;t simply backed by a database, it can function as a database to which you add (a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}