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   nugend@gmail.com

   11 March 2005

   Great presentations slides Thomas. It’s so rare to see slides that don’t suck.

   This may be a little scatterbrained as I’m on a sugar high right now and seeing spots:

   If I read your Blog as Personal Knowledge Management presentation correctly, the only real reason that the Blog serves its purpose so well is that it accepts any kind of digital information, from a thought extracted from your own mental ether to a song you found out on the long tail.

   In Wrapper’s Delight, you say that Metadata is pricey and hard. I’m pretty new to the Metadata scene, what makes it this way specifically? I’ve really only been looking at Predicate-Subject-Object triplets in terms of formal metadata and that seems pretty cheap, if incredibly tedious. Is it the tedium that makes it expensive and hard?

   The IA for the PIC is pretty good in general, but it strikes me that if we’re running everything through our PIC (as it seemed to be implied), the PIC either loses value due to oversaturation or we have to spend a lot of extra time on discriminating what deserves to be definitley indexed inside of the PIC. The solution that comes to mind is an Agent that tries to pick up some of the slack for us. Problem being that agents are by their nature intrusive and have a history of being as annoying as they are useful.

   Eagerly awaiting any extra notes.

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