Things That Make You Go Hmmm...
Interesting observation from Slashdotter mwvdlee
So what is this semantic web / web 2.0 thing anyway?Sure, we're all seeing community sites, blogs, tagging, etc. But each of those sites is an individual site, and their only connections seem to be plain HTML links. Community sites don't really allow collaboration, blogs are standardized personal web pages and who here uses tags to actually find information? All these things might warrant a "Web 1.0 patch 3283" label, but is it really a new type of web? Is it the type and magnitude of paradigm shift that the first web was? It only seems like people are just becoming more aware of the possibilities of the same web it was 10 years ago.
I actually really like tags and use them to manage lots of things like this website. The problem with tags though is that they are only truly meaningful to the person that added them (see Smoking Robot for examples and more discussion).
Here is some interesting thoughts from Cory Doctorow on Meta data also (semi-short but highly entertaining, good read).