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March 16, 2004

Meta-categories

Last night, at the EFF party at sxsw, I got to talk with Don Turnbull, a professor at the U of Texas. We talked about metadata, a topic he is very learned, thoughtful and interesting about.

This morning, he sent me an email with helpful links to some of the topics we'd talked about (including how the online WorldBook handles tagging entries from the '30s that talked glowingly about that young, dynamic German leader, Adolph Hitler). Excellent. But I'm on the road, so the message came into my laptop's Outlook receptacle, which is a message ghetto in relation to my desktop machine. So, without a trace of irony, I found myself thinking that it's too bad that Outlook doesn't have categories for messages so I could tag Don's message as "Metadata."

Posted by D. Weinberger at March 16, 2004 08:52 AM


Comments

I thought it was the South by Southwest link in Austin Texas. Oh well

Posted by: benita | March 16, 2004 08:59 AM


You mean http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/?

Posted by: David Weinberger | March 16, 2004 09:16 AM


I want to see the links.

Posted by: Nick Douglas | March 16, 2004 02:35 PM


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