Made out of people

Autocollaboration

Our term of the day is one that I made up during a job interview. I was trying to explain what categorization problems (such as those made visible in del.icio.us) and described in Sorting Things Out) have to do with CSCW.

One of the major things that one does with categorization, of course, is put stuff somewhere so one can find it again. You want others to find it too, of course. But sometimes, it's just about finding it yourself some other time. That's a form of collaboration, of course: it's collaboration across time, instead of space. And it's collaboration with yourself.

"Autocollaboration."

I like it. More later, I think.