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Metacrap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Metacrap is a portmanteau drawn from metadata and crap. The origin of the word is unknown, but it was popularized by Cory Doctorow in a 2001 essay titled "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-m...
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Explicit, human-generated metadata has enjoyed recent trendiness, especially in the ... If everyone would subscribe to such a system and create good metadata for the purposes of describing their goods, services and information, it would be a trivial matter to search the Internet for highly qualified, ... A world of exhaustive,
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I was recently asked what I thought of Cory Doctorow’s classic Metacrap paper. He was, of course, dead on when he wrote it. The nagging question at the time was “what alternatives do we have?” And the sad answer was “not many.”...
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About five years, ago, Cory Doctorow published the entertaining reality check called "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia". Take a look at it. Still valid.
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Metacrap; Version 1.1, May 18 2001. Changed section orders for better organization. (Thanks, Raffi). Clarified; "metrics" in 2.6 (Thanks, Andy). Version 1.0, May 15 2001. First draft; BACK TO TOP; 1. Introduction; ... Metacrap; 2.1 People lie; Metadata exists in a competitive world. Suppliers compete to sell their...
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XML Summer School, Oxford 2009 (Set) ... Metadata or Metacrap? by dullhunk. ... Click this icon to see all public photos and videos tagged with metacrap...
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But the social effect of them–the folksonomies that emerge from looking at the aggregate of tags it is not done explicit. So, do tags break, or escape, the critique of metacrap? Or, are they just more metacrap? ... "Metacrap" is a very strong, coherent, pointed critique of the dream of metadata.
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One thing that is clear to me is that personal publishing via RSS and the various forms of blogging have found a way to trample all the arguments against metadata in Cory Doctorow's Metacrap article from so many years ago.
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In Eric Newton’s response to Dare’s metacrap posting, he notes that “people didnt use office's meta data because frankly it wasmt on the beaten path. and frankly most people just simply arent organized and dont care to be organized, until they want to find something.”...
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