» The next big thing: User-contributed metadata ... and More...
Kind of a "roundup" post.
- First, this user-contributed metadata business. More the evolution of loyalty cards than of user-contributed media online, I think. . The next big thing: User-contributed metadata | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com . Will we see it go the other way -- with professionally published media voluntarily exchanged for metadata to support advertising? This is certainly how print media is going. The other day the WSJ reported that the Wall Street Journal is considering dropping their subscription fee.
- So far people seem to be focusing on user-contributed metadata about people, but in a few cases about things, too (as Nova Spivack at Twine is). Not that it matters, but I think I like this trend. It takes us another step closer to that great coping mechanism and contributor to information overload: the virtual hive mind. Just need to figure out how to create that callable interface between what each of us "knows".
I also stumbled on something recently by Shriram Krishnamurthi, who wrote this in October 2005:
"Computer science is a liberal art. If we were redesigning the trivium
and quadrivium today, there is no question computer science—which embodies
a new epistemology—would be in the middle of the action. Make sure at least
part of your curriculum teaches it like it were one."
In the last couple weeks, Nicholas Negroponte from MIT Media Lab and $100 laptop fame was reported to be giving a talk on Computer Science as a Liberal Art. And Alfred Thompson reports Bob Metcalfe making similar remarks.
No doubt these folks are smarter than me, and even I've been saying this. Here's a question: when do you call it a meme?
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John Mullinax is a Platform Strategy Advisor with Microsoft's DPE Team. Before joining Microsoft in 2006, John held a vartiety of positions at Ford Motor Company, most recently leading IT services strategy to support explosive business growth in China. Other positions included: Enterprise Architect, Application Portfolio Management, Technology Governance, and Product Manager. Prior to joining Ford, John earned his MBA at the University of Washington. Before that, he was Director of Elections for Douglas County, Washington, where he conducted the first Federal mail-ballot election in the USA. Subsequently, he joined the Secretary of State's office as a consultant working with county election officials in Washington state to improve operational effectiveness, integrity, and security (aka, to prevent the kind of debacle we saw in Florida in 2000).
