After watching the movie Alphaville by Jean-Luc Godard I began thinking about the idea of codifying information. As I began to think about it the first thing which came up in my mind was the idea of meta tagging in blogs. As much as I think meta tagging is an extremely useful thing allowing us to understand immense amounts of information; I can’t help but realize it doesn’t take into account the idea of feelings. Unless you ‘tag’ something as happy or sad or joyous or angry nothing of the feeling comes through. The tone of what the author is feeling hopefully comes through in their writing. But this tone is also very arbitrary. Feelings are very personal and individualized, not capable of being mass consumed.
As for a new system to incorporate feelings and tones… I have no clue. Also, I realize the irony in me tagging this entry.
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Simple one-word tags express little or no emotion, it’s true — but what about elaborate tags? For instance, I tag most of my things “The only convincing love story of the 21st Century.”