‘The Amazing Screw-On Head‘ from Mike Mignola, who created Hellboy. I can’t believe I’d never seen this until only recently. Dirigibles! The pathos of a decapitated automaton! The fact that she makes a throne out of live rats! This is the pilot episode, and I wish, very dearly, that there were more. Perhaps if we are all very dark and broody for Christmas, then Santa (ever notice the anagram?) will one day grace us with a series.
I’ve just spent the last half hour reorganizing my Picassa files, my notebooks, and my feeds; and I’ve come to the shocking conclusion that I am generating nowhere near enough metadata. I find myself frantically trolling the interwebs for marginal content that I can, in turn, organize. Only 7 major feeds? Only 5 notebook headings? I can still organize my Miro video’s by genre? Gott in Himmel! I must be failing in my citizenly duties!
This drive to categorize, and track, and tag seems to me a blessing and a curse. In a distributed information society it becomes every individuals role to be a keeper of content, and in turn to be held responsible, not for, but to that content. Sort of the whole ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ scenario. Except that in this instance the responsibility is both personal and distributed. An aspect of ourselves becomes the patina that we have added to other’s content.
I’m curious to see if this sort of trend will reach a sort of ludditic critical mass of overstimulated technophiles. Will there be a rebuttal of content? Tagging for the sake of tagging alone?
If you’ll excuse me, I have to start in on my music collection…
