LOL…I was thinking about this article today during our family lunch when a discussion of moldy bread came up, which elicited the “ewww” factor from everyone involved!

I actually was reading along the article thinking this is interesting and then all of a sudden flashed back to when the kids were little and how NOT “mom-friendly” stores seemed to be.

Perhaps I was being very single-minded in thinking that negative/positive placement would be the only factor to consider when making these kinds of decisions. These studies are helpful in that statistically speaking they are correct but there is always that one weirdo like me that sees things a little different.

I may actually be a proof that in some ways that we are both correct, because what I was reading directly before this article was critical of advertising and that probably influenced me as well. The negative article next to this article made me view it in a negative light. By the same token, that shows that we all have personal associations with things that may have nothing to do with the item itself but with our own experience with it and can therefore be transient. The item remains the same but our experience may change our view of it.

I wonder how all this would translate to folksonomy and tagging. This article may have been tagged very differently by you and I.