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  • adjective Of or pertaining to heterarchy

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  • Another guy in the audience reasoned that folders are hierarchical but tags cross-reference (or are heterarchical as another blogger termed it).

    SXSW Notes: Beyond Folksonomies – Knitting Tag Clouds for Grandma « Innovation Cloud 2006

  • Another guy in the audience reasoned that folders are hierarchical but tags cross-reference (or are heterarchical as another blogger termed it).

    March « 2006 « Innovation Cloud 2006

  • Readers who wrote in also celebrated entrepreneurial work and heterarchical forms of social organization, promoted disembodied community as an achievable ideal, and suggested that techno-social systems could serve as sites of ecstatic communion.

    The Chicago Blog: September 2006 Archives 2006

  • Readers who wrote in also celebrated entrepreneurial work and heterarchical forms of social organization, promoted disembodied community as an achievable ideal, and suggested that techno-social systems could serve as sites of ecstatic communion.

    The Chicago Blog: Google in paperback form 2006

  • Who's to say that each of these fights might not be won with a concentrated application of heterarchical web-power.

    Beyond Bashing Bush: Grassroots environmentalism and the prospect for a populist resurgence 2006

  • This perhaps explains the heterarchical governance of Wikipedia that continues to function at significant scale.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Ross Mayfield on cornucopias of cooperation 2005

  • It is a natural application of our increasingly P2P culture not to mention an inherently democratic and decentralized architecture that might/should lead thinking about mmo design away from the authoritarian, centralized and paranoid model it currently exclusively inhabits, toward a trust-based, heterarchical and cooperative model of development, creation, community management and administration...

    Innovation II 2005

  • Alexander, who had views upon the East and was no stranger to the heterarchical party which, under the guidance of Prince Ypsilanti, prepared a revolution in Greece (which actually broke out) against the

    Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

  • Readers who wrote in also celebrated entrepreneurial work and heterarchical forms of social organization, promoted disembodied community as an achievable ideal, and suggested that techno-social systems could serve as sites of ecstatic communion.

    The Chicago Blog 2009

  • Readers who wrote in also celebrated entrepreneurial work and heterarchical forms of social organization, promoted disembodied community as an achievable ideal, and suggested that techno-social systems could serve as sites of ecstatic communion.

    The Chicago Blog 2009

  • When individual pieces exist on one level without further categorization, the taxonomy is heterarchical.

    Taxonomies can be hierarchical or heterarchical. Abby Covert 2023

  • When individual pieces exist on one level without further categorization, the taxonomy is heterarchical.

    How to Make Sense of Any Mess Abby Covert 2023

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