"You Own Your Own Metadata" — Will Kreth's wonderful piece on the need for portable metadata standards. I'm not totally sold on the metadata thing.
I wonder:
- how it is you keep people from spamming/spoofing
- how to ensure that we have a common vocabulary — you say "Watching cartoons," and I say "Cultural Anthropology," and do we really need to come to accord on what to call it?
- and how to convince people to enter, spellcheck and lint their own metadata — you can get great bargains by searching for "Plam Pilot" on eBay; and it seems like half of the tracks on Napster have no artist/title info, despite the ease with which one can import ID3 stuff using the CDDB
Nevertheless, this article makes a compelling case for putting your metadata back into your own hands. Good stuff.