Ideas DO Have URIs

Saw this interesting post recently (while searching for ["doesn't have a URL"]):

I was attracted by an idea that emerged... "The idea doesn't have a URL." In other words, a tag can somewhat represent and [sic] idea. A URL can point to one slice or view of an idea. But it cannot be captured with either a tag or idea [sic? I think URL was meant here].

An idea is no more or less nameable via URIs and describable via representations than it is nameable by words and describable by sentences.

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[Nancy White]

Hiya Nick

thanks for resurfacing that photo, and all the ideas that I associate with it. It was taken at the first Northern Voice blogging conference in 2005. Stephen Downs and a bunch of other people were brainstorming and that particular post it, as I recall, caught all of our attention.

The more I think of the network like way online interaction is evolving, I do think ideas are also network like. A url may grab on to the edge of that idea, but it the network of thought that is expressed by the collection of urls that gets closer to capturing the "idea" itself as it evolves from a conception coming from one person, to an idea that has been shaped by a collection of people.

Does that make any sense?