Everything is Miscellaneous: Chpt 5,6

Chapter 5

1. Chapter five is basically about metadata and how important it is not only in the physical world, but the online world as well. Metadata is becoming more and more important online especially as the amount of information online continues to expand. The importance of metadata will continue to grow as well into the future because everything is basically turning into metadata.
2. “Everything is metadata and everything can be a label.” “in the third order, everything is connected and therefore everything is metadata.”
3. The point about how everything is metadata is so true in my life because I spend quite a bit of time online searching for things. It is amazing how you can type in one thing and a search engine takes that metadata and can either come up with exactly what you were looking for or take it completely out of context and give you results that have the same metadata but completely irrelevant to what you originally searched for.

Chapter 6

1. Chapter six goes into detail about unique identifiers. In one portion of the chapter RFID tags are detailed and also explained how they are changing the world we live in today. Unique identifiers are becoming more and more important especially because of the amount of overwhelming data we have access to, whether it be physical or online.
2. “But unique identifiers don’t just provide a way to pull information together. They also allow information to be dispersed.” “It’s how we’re going to make sense of the miscellany of ideas and information we’re creating for ourselves.”
3. My connection for this chapter has a lot to do with the last chapter as well. Searching online is becoming more and more scrambled and now with the use of unique identifiers it will become easier to find what you are looking for. When I worked at a retail store we used RFID tags for our clothing and it made it very simple to sort our inventory much quicker than having to actually looking within the product to tell the size.