User:Bigpinkthing

Hello!

I work in TV and like metadata, interactive tv and stuff like that. Other interests include badminton, films and spending time with my family. Also interested in meta noise. As you may have guessed, I'm a futurology nut (though I admit I think about it more than I actually consuming technology)!

In particular, I believe that Web 2.0 will be a very shortlived exercise in the deployment of technology and software methodologies because the inherant nature of individual media control is deeply flawed. Human history has demonstrated that conformity, albeit lightly influencing society, is vitally important to the success of a society.

Web 2.0 encourages diversity without collaboration, data becomes fragmented and journeys will digress, rather than remain parallel and ordered. Although Metadata (data about data) enables relationship building between 'objects', and the semantic web allows individuals to create their own metadata to define their own world, the next generation of community resources (where Wikipedia and Flickr might be in a year or two) should be allowing users to collaberate and organise not only their own data, but also the data of others using metadata.

I know stuff about TV that has never reached the public domain..... watch out for my edits, and never believe anything on TV!

collaborative tagging
I can't shout about it loud enough!!!

Oh, and don't forget cycling.tv

Alex