Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags

Now this is a useful little article: Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags it explores briefly what is involved in categorisation and the technology-enabled emerging alternative, tagging. What I'm interested in is the theological link to my biblical theme of the moment, the naming of the animals and the theological/philosophical reflections arising from that. But I'm also interested in the way that it begins to change the way we think; to shift culture. Here's what I think is really important in the article in this respect:

Browse versus search is a radical increase in the trust we put in link infrastructure, and in the degree of power derived from that link structure. Browse says the people making the ontology, the people doing the categorization, have the responsibility to organize the world in advance. Given this requirement, the views of the catalogers necessarily override the user's needs and the user's view of the world. If you want something that hasn't been categorized in the way you think about it, you're out of luck.
The search paradigm says the reverse. It says nobody gets to tell you in advance what it is you need. Search says that, at the moment that you are looking for it, we will do our best to service it based on this link structure, because we believe we can build a world where we don't need the hierarchy to coexist with the link structure.