Mmmmm, metadata

Ah applying appropriate metadata, who knew it could be so hip and sexy. CNN has an article about people tagging their fliker photos.

"Tagging is something selfishly useful. It helps you understand and categorize something for yourself," Technorati founder David Sifry said. "But I can take advantage of the fact that you and hundreds and thousands of people have also tagged the things" for themselves.

But the down side:

Another drawback lacks an easy solution, though. Once tagging takes off, marketers are bound to add irrelevant tags to hijack you to the latest Viagra ad.