About Tag
On Fluidinfo, FluidDB and tagging . . . and especially the about tag.
This is a blog about the wonderful, but now sadly defunct Fluidinfo system, brainchild of Terry Jones. It is being republished here on MicroDB in 2018 because many of the same ideas are relevant to MicroDB.
Blog entries
- An Evening With Ray Bradbury
- Getting Started With Fluidinfo
- xmltextnorm: A Simple XML Text Normalizer to Support Diff for Docbook, XHTML, HTML etc.
- Fish Fixes and setuptools
- Tags, The Tagosphere and Every Thing: Towards an rcp for Fish
- Movement and Copying in Fluidinfo
- Like ℵ0 File Systems for Everyone
- Updates to the Web Apps Shell-Fish and About Tag
- Dial @ for Anonymous
- Fish 4.23
- From Sets to Lists
- Writing Files to Fluidinfo with Fish 4.21
- Lies, Damn Lies and Progress Indicators
- The British Library Catalogue / British National Bibliography
- Fish 4.18 Released: Aliases, Sequences, Duck Typing and More
- Fragmentation and URL Normalization
- Siri: The Command Line for Everyone Else
- Microsoft, iPads and the Innovator’s Dilemma
- Everyone Needs a Little Privacy
- Tagging Music and Bands (or anything else) in Fluidinfo
- Python Anywhere (featuring Emacs Anywhere!)
- Gigs and Concerts in Fluidinfo
- Sequences in Fluidinfo
- Alias Fish and Sync
- The End of the Fish Wars: The Fluidinfo Shell Version 4.0
- Movement and Renaming In Fluidinfo and Fish
- Command Substitution and the Interactive Fish Shell
- Fish 3.07
- About Tags In Fish
- Like A Scrolling Terminal
- Securing shell-fish with fish: Even More on Fluidinfo Permissions
- Fishier Still: rm, extra perms and more with fish 3.01
- Using fdb On Windows
- Of Fish, Shell-Fish and Fish Py
- Permissions and Permissiveness
- The Music of Fluidinfo II
- Setting and Changing Permissions with FDB
- A Simpler Interface to Fluidinfo Permissions
- Permissions in Fluidinfo
- Like Twitter For Data
- fdb 2.00: New GitHub Location; Defaults to Fluidinfo-style Paths
- Fluidinfo: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- A Search Engine for Fluidinfo
- Leanpub and The Book of the Blog
- Fluidinfo: The Vision
- Wikifying Fluidinfo
- Terry’s Query
- Choice and Conformity in fdb
- fdb.py 1.30 — Embryonic /values API support
- What’s in Fluidinfo? An Analysis of About Tags
- Pretty Good Uniqueness
- The Music of FluidDB I: Albums, Tracks and Songs
- DRM, Readability and the Ownership of Bits
- 100 Bestsellers in FluidDB: So What?
- Update to Abouttag (app and library)
- The FluidDB People App from @paparent
- Abouttag (library/web app/visualizations): Update
- What Would Wikipedia Do? (WWWD)
- God Rest Ye Social Bookmarkers
- The Two Kinds of Search: Locating Items vs. Locating Information
- A Translation of “Yahoo’s What’s Next for Delicious?” Blog Post
- What’s Next for Delicious?
- Del.icio.us Exporting And Alternatives: An Update
- A Conversation with Eliza about Carol Bartz and Delicious
- Del.icio.us and I: Reflections and Alternative Alternatives
- Ratings and FluidDB
- Seeing What’s In FluidDB
- What Is FluidDB About?
- Wherefore FluidDB?
- How to Tag Books in FluidDB
- The Guardian 1,000 Books Electronically Tagged
- The Perfect About Tag: Books in FluidDB (redux)
- Alice in FluidDB
- abouttag: A Package for Normalizing FluidDB about tags
- About Tag Conventions in FluidDB
- Order from Chaos: Tagging and Tabulating the Solar System in FluidDB
- The Periodic Table of the Elements
- The Permissions Sketch
- Permissions Worth Getting Excited About
- FDB 1.21
- FDB 1.20: Namespace Functions Added to API
- Flags in FDB from 1.18
- FDB 1.18
- Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
- FDB 1.15: Important Bug Fix
- Delicious and FluidDB
- Like Twitter For Data
- Getting Started with FluidDB
- About Tag