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06 Dec 2005
MicroContent Lists
I have been thinking about Lists lately. I started a separate Tiddler in my MicroContentWiki article. I am not sure I use the right word for it. I did see however many other words for this, so I standardised my terminology on this word.
Other words that I have found are Playlists (iTunes), Weblogs (MarsEdit), Albums (iPhoto), groups, collections, stacks, groups, folders, bags, sets, etc. But in the end these words all point to the same concept: multiple MicroContent Items that belong together for some reason.
A complicating aspect is that now sometimes Lists are also called a MicroContent Item in their own right. I do not agree with that approach. This however implies that there is need to enumerate the possible Lists and the reason for creating Lists in the first place. And that must be more than just saying that there exist ordered and unordered lists (as in HTML).