Welcome to the blog of Can Sar, a Stanford CS major. This blog is made up of my thoughts on Computer Science and the computer industry, as well as ever exciting tales from my life.
The categorization of information is a hotly debated topic in semantic web circles. Modern weblogging software usually comes with categories that allows you to separate things into different topics or themes. But to what degree is it really possible to categorize ones thoughts into a small number of topics, and is this really useful? Everyone of my posts is inherently personal, and though some of them are more technical (the CS category), nearly everything that I think could possibly fit into the personal category.
Are categories going to become obsolete and give way to searching for words, like Yahoo gave way to Google? Should I remove the concept of categories completely and just accept that everything I write is simply personal, or is there some value to separating thoughts on Computer Science from thoughts on my life?