{"id":22823,"date":"2008-04-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/04\/08\/i-always-get-scared-when-i-see-people-trying-to-organize-the-internet-into-hierarchies\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T10:00:00","slug":"i-always-get-scared-when-i-see-people-trying-to-organize-the-internet-into-hierarchies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080408-00\/?p=22823","title":{"rendered":"I always get scared when I see people trying to organize the Internet into hierarchies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always get scared when I see people propose building neat little &#8220;hierarchically organized&#8221; taxonomies of something that is, well, a web. I think these are people who get their kicks out of having all their shoes lined up neatly in front of the doorstep, sorted alphabetically by designer. &#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s classify all the blogs so we can have a Microsoft\\Technologies\\IT\\Desktop\\.NET Framework\\User Interface\\WinFX\\Color Management\\Printing node that all the <i>WinFX printer color management on desktop-class machines for IT managers<\/i> blogs can be listed under.&#8221;\n All zero of them.<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/larryosterman\/\"> Larry Osterman&#8217;s popular blog<\/a> which is &#8220;a bunch of random technical stuff, sometimes current, sometimes historical, with a few programming puzzles thrown in&#8221; doesn&#8217;t fit anywhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always get scared when I see people propose building neat little &#8220;hierarchically organized&#8221; taxonomies of something that is, well, a web. I think these are people who get their kicks out of having all their shoes lined up neatly in front of the doorstep, sorted alphabetically by designer. &#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s classify all the blogs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-22823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I always get scared when I see people propose building neat little &#8220;hierarchically organized&#8221; taxonomies of something that is, well, a web. I think these are people who get their kicks out of having all their shoes lined up neatly in front of the doorstep, sorted alphabetically by designer. &#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s classify all the blogs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}