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Canadian blogger Cory Doctorow, the man behind BoingBoing, coined the term "metacrap" - metadata that can be misleading.
silicon.com : 2009
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Canadian blogger Cory Doctorow, the man behind BoingBoing, coined the term "metacrap" - metadata that can be misleading.
silicon.com : 2009
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This metacrap strategy surfaced in what is hopefully one of his last contributions to the Atlantic online, "Is Feminism the New Natalism?"
Linda Hirshman: Ross Douthat Watch Lesson One: Money Is Fungible 2009
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The book competently describes the meaning of metadata, tag clouds, geotagging, machine tags, Cory Doctorow's metacrap problem, pace layering, "the stream", and other essential concepts in the tagging galaxy.
Tagging - People Powered Metadata for the Social Web (review) 2008
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The book competently describes the meaning of metadata, tag clouds, geotagging, machine tags, Cory Doctorow's metacrap problem, pace layering, "the stream", and other essential concepts in the tagging galaxy.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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The usually brilliant Mark Schmitt’s post on the SOTU is a bunch of metacrap.
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