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Metacrap Putting the torch to seven straw men of the meta-utopia

m posted October 13, 2009

Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw men of the meta-utopia was an essay written by Cory Doctorow in 2003 about the losing battle against including--and relying upon--accurate metadata in the public Internet.

The key points are both that people are too lazy or too ignorant to care and that, even if everyone were to put the effort into labeling data, hierarchies are subjective.