Blog #5

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“It is inevitable that we tend to focus on what is said and not on the unsaid that enables it, since as soon as we pay attention to the implicit, it becomes explicit…..We call the implicit the context or the background.

So the term implicit is used to describe what is not being said or what we don’t see taking affect to
making something explicit. Implicit is something we understand from words.  Weinberger gives an example when he talks about the traffic signs.  “In order to help the sign’s meaning become implicit. R reading a sign takes longer than “getting” the symbol.  When a symbol has become a part of our vocabulary, we don’t stumble and fumble as we try to understand it.  It’s simply a part of the meaning of the word.  It enters our context our backgrounds” (pg 151).   

Explicit meaning is when the words tell you exactly what is going on around or to point out to something that is real, concepts that are very specific and not open to interpretation. Weinberger explains when he gives his example of one person finding out a away to get from A to B.  “Before you know it, it’s 1914, cars are running on roads that used to be paths, and the Automobile Club of Southern California decides it needs to mark the way from Kansas City to Los Angeles with four thousand signs.  The implicit is made very explicit” (pg 150)

Folksonomy is just simply how people tag things onlune.  “…Thomas Vander Wal coined the term folksonomy in 2005 to mean an ordered se of categories (or “taxonomy”) that emerges from how people tag items” (pg 165). 

Weinberger explains the importance of all three terms relating to the third order of order in his context.  “In the third order, the content and the metadata are all digital” (pg 171).

“That implicit we of relationships gives the things of our world their meaning” (pg 170)

"The meaning of a particular thing is enabled by the web of implicit meanings we call the world" (170).

“The value of the potential, implicit ways of ordering the digital miscellany
dwarfs the value of any particular actualization” (pg 171).

Folksonomy in relation to rest of the terms and the importance is the fact that people tag things giving it some kind of digital order which follows under the third order of orders and the organization of the miscellaneous.