Cory Doctorow on Metacrap
Interesting article on why Cory Doctorow thinks metadata won’t work - at least the kind that is human-generated.
In most of the mobility software work I’ve been a part of, what we call “metadata” is machine-generated - data that references an original, master copy of an email, an appointment, a database record.
This article deserves to be read simply by virtue of amazing lines like this:
Meta-utopia is a world of reliable metadata. When poisoning the well confers benefits to the poisoners, the meta-waters get awfully toxic in short order.
via VentureBlog.
August 22nd, 2003 at 1:53 pm
Tim Oren adds massive value in this overview of Metadata.
One of the directions he takes in his article is particularly fascinating: metadata and legal issues. More on this in other posts.