Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
This article ends rather suddenly, but if you ignore some of the language you get a pretty good discussion of the hurdles involved in constructing a good metadata search and retrieval system. The first three hurdles are especially telling: people lie, people are lazy, and people are stupid. Blunt, but an accurate description of the problem. By Cory Doctorow, August 26, 2001.

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