http://www.wordle.net/createI guess my attitude about social tagging and metadata dates me in a lot of ways. While I consume digital media of various kinds ravenously I have this mental block that prevents me from treating it differently than I do stacks of real life books and discs. While I am constantly downloading music and movies I can never bring my self to care about metadata because my real life organizational habits more or less carry over to all of my digital libraries. I have a friend that obsessively creates Meta data for everything on his hard drive, but he is also some body who makes little tags for his bookshelves as if it were a bookstore or library. My organizational sense revolves around obscure things that only make sense to me. A pile of books on my shelf may look completely unrelated accept that I put them there because they are all good visual references, so a time life book on wildlife ends up right next to a book full of 19th century photos of Philadelphia. It looks random to an outsider but to me that is organization. Do any of you use social tagging systems in ways that are especially particular to your self? What do you think these little personal systems say about who you are?
