Tags are all the rage, eh? Everywhere we click, there it is. But this post isn’t about “tags”, but the uses to which these things are put to.
Visit technorati.com or the ever popular del.icio.us and you are confronted by a list of what is popular, which term is most searched for, lusted after. Indeed, the premise underlying del.icio.us is that “the rule” rules - much like the recent book by James Surowiecki (Wisdom of the Crowds
blog blob? The undermining of the recalcitrant? Is a feeling of being underwhelmed supposed to wash over us when our searches are decried as unpopular? Will there be a new personality disorder for this in DSM-V?
My unending gratitude goes to the person who can conceptualise and bring to the net the least sought after, most over-looked issue relative to the times. You know, things like “justice”, “truthfulness” and such like.
