[Sigia-l] OT: Library Thing

[Listera]

Alexander Johannesen:

> Even within the library world it's been around for over 30 years...

The statue of limitations on that one passed with the advent of fire and
technology. :-)

> Saying tagging is free is having disregard for what people themselves
> reckon their time is worth.

How can you say that? Nobody's forcing anybody to tag on Flickr! Where's
Karl fast when you need him to say that it's not just economics. :-)

The idea here is that whether it's low-cost, near-free or free, the work is
voluntary and distributed. And then aggregated hopefully in some interesting
ways.

> Social engineering taps into this magical "I'd to it for free anyways" pool as
> long as that pool exsist, but as our own awareness of the true value of it
> expands, so it will change.

As will the awareness by commercial entities to discover the hidden value in
the aggregation which may allow them to offer compensation.

> If anything, what we're observing these days are the benefits to early
> adopters, but what happens next I'll agree we know very little about.

Agreed, and that's why I say let's keep an open mind on this one.

---- 
Ziya

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