looking for patterns vs. dreaming up patterns (was Re: ecommerce was Re: [uf-discuss] Principles of Microformats?)

2006-12-21 Thread Tantek Çelik
I'm not sure who originally wrote: Tantek suggests I'm being a bad scientist by allowing myself to look for patterns. To be clear, collecting examples (data) and looking for patterns is exactly what the process asks you to do. Others skip the collecting examples (data) step and simply dream

Re: looking for patterns vs. dreaming up patterns (was Re: ecommerce was Re: [uf-discuss] Principles of Microformats?)

2006-12-21 Thread Benjamin West
On 12/21/06, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure who originally wrote: I did. Others skip the collecting examples (data) step and simply dream up patterns based on their intuition (or expertise) - perhaps that is what you mean by allowing myself to look for patterns. It was

Re: looking for patterns vs. dreaming up patterns (was Re: ecommerce was Re: [uf-discuss] Principles of Microformats?)

2006-12-21 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 12/21/06 10:24 AM, Benjamin West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/21/06, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure who originally wrote: I did. Others skip the collecting examples (data) step and simply dream up patterns based on their intuition (or expertise) - perhaps that is

Re: looking for patterns vs. dreaming up patterns (was Re: ecommerce was Re: [uf-discuss] Principles of Microformats?)

2006-12-21 Thread Benjamin West
Ah, thanks for the context Ben. The quote makes more sense in that context, but I still feel makes a statement that I wouldn't make. Oops! I didn't mean to do anything like that! It's an interesting hypothesis, but I believe what I was pointing out from the IRC conversation is that you may