it is amazing how much semantics can be had for free these days. while i’m keenly interested in metadata and the semantic web, live is probably too short to bother with extensive annotation. the way out? maybe it can all be automated to produce low fidelity, but constant metadata. google doesn’t do too badly on just links, although they may move beyond that soon.
so i’m willing to play with new tools, or teach old tools new tricks. i signed up for the internet topic exchange, which collects posts, sorted by category, via trackback. simple concept with potentially serious ramifications. weblogs.com has long scaled out of being useful. to really scale, it needs to support some form of faceted metadata, such as XFML. of course people wont agree on taxonomies, but since every taxonomy is arbitrary why not just pick one and be done with it.

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