del.icio.us links for 2005-08-10

• Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags: The strategy of tagging -- free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints -- seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets. (database design internet web)
• UGA scientist takes dark out of chicken meat: University of Georgia poultry and food scientist Daniel Fletcher can make "a silk purse" if he wants to. In his research, he's turning dark meat, the underused "sow's ear" of chicken, into something more valuable: white meat. (chicken food meat science uga weird)