Curse of Granularity

Insightful post about the ever expanding information firehose. Brought to my attention by the atomiq blog. The author of that blog, Gene Smith, has a new book out called Tagging:People-powered Metadata for the Social Web , which I have on order. Have been looking at the tagging issue, and in the resources I have looked at, people don't tag things. I see that in MS's image manipulating programs there are explicit places for tags. On Amazon's Mechanical Turk there is a 'human intelligence task' that asks you to provide ten tags for arbitrary images. They will pay you $0.01 per image for the bother. Not a way to make a lot of money.