I honestly did not like either of the readings this go around. The metadata, folkonomy reading was specifically hard to digest. It was not only providing technical term after term after term, it was quite poorly written. I couldn’t understand when one idea ended and the next one began, and would be completely lost if it weren’t for the paragraph breakers. It explained how the functions of the robots used to find tags were unable to retrieve picture and video date and were only used for categorizing words, which allowed for media sharing websites such as flickr to prosper. The flickr article, although not as informatively force feeding, wasn’t that much more interesting. I learned some fun new facts about the website’s origin and what it’s original purpose was but overall it was pretty boring to me. Hopefully better reading next week 🙂
-Tarik
