When I think of Terry Chay, the first thing that comes to mind is meta data. Not photography, not Lunch 2.0, not PHP.
Terry is such an agressive folksonomist that he invades your Flickr stream and adds tags to your photos.
His own Flickr tags are much more detailed.
By looking at this cloud, you can see that he likes event photography and northern California a lot.
Those are only 150 of his most popular tags. Here is the full list. (Go get some coffee if you plan on reading the whole list.)
So, I was not surprised to find out that he was embedding metadata in his blog posts.
He has even highlighted hover text in a light green:
For years now, people have been using the anchor’s title attribute for giving more information about a hyperlink, but Terry does it with regular text!
I think it’s a really cool idea. It may take longer to read his blog, but it’s a lot more fun. Note, Firefox users will have difficulty reading more than 100 or so lines of a <span title="">
The content of Terry’s blog truly has meaning now. What if you want to explain more about a concept, but don’t feel like linking to it? This concept of metablogging interests me, and I may start to use it more.
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I love the handwritten commentary on this post. I wish someone would do a parody on the semantic web and call it the pedantic web.
He’s teasing another habit of mine which is to use Skitch early and often.
I need to go back over old blog entries and update them. But that’s why Catholics like me have purgatory.
I used Skitch.
http://www.skitch.com
I installed this in my firefox in order to read xkcd.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1715
It might help you.