Tuesday, February 24, 2009

THING 5

It occurred to me that flickr tags are how images are accessed by Google & why sometimes those images seem incongruent with a search word. Maybe not. Once again, confronted not only with new Internet terminology and the tweaking of familiar terms for the WWW, but also the specificity of vocabulary within this cyberwonderworld. A tag is not a title is not a category; they have very specific functions for organization and accessibility. Well, probably always did. Anyway, I realized that chez moi is accessed as two words that probably won't readily resonate, certainly not if separated.
I liked the mouse over a book in the virtual library opening up the world within that title. I didn't have luck with the geotagging, if I have that right. Evidently no one was uploading photos from Belize. Patience may also be a factor. I did upload photos from a disc I happened to have and put a "web" photo in my profile.
Once again again, I am overwhelmed by concepts such as megadata and photostream, the constant stream of consciousness inherent in entering into cyberspace. Of course, just like considering the specificity of words, life is stream of consciousness after all. And meditation is letting go of that stream. Hmmmm.


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  1. Thanks for commenting on others blogs. I appreciate your commitment to the program.

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