was always meant to imply
science-logic ('robot')
tempered by art-intuition ('wisdom')
asserting that the social
sciences
fail
because they fail to meet
novelists' standards
of realism
and now
the first ontologies
for the semantic web
fail too
because they lack
poetry
which is intuition's metric
for psychological realism
but here's an antidote
or at least a try
at meeting them halfway:
re-format your
ontologies, for classifying
photos
music
news
to show them graphically
iconically
heraldically
as human-readable 'barcodes'
that put first things first
human priorities before
machine priorities
for music, foregrounding
the genre
the beat
the stress/soothingness
for pix
the prettiness
the subject
the degree of artifice
(eg photoshop)
for news stories
the place
the category
(disaster, biz, bizarre)
the interestingness
heraldic representations
putting 1st things 1st
but leaving room for tweaks
and judging
first and last
by their aptness
for the eye
