Metadata is “data about data”. Meta from the Greek, μετά, meaning with or after. I suppose if you wanted to sound grand you could pronounce it hyper-correctly with the stress on the second syllable, met-ah’. I’ve heard some incorrectly pronounce it meet’-ah, perhaps a false analogy with βῆτα = beta. But you never hear anyone […]
Archives for October 2007
Cracks in the Foundation
You must admire their tenacity. Gary Edwards, Sam Hiser, and Paul E. Merrell (aka “Marbux”) . The mythology of Silicon Valley is filled with stories of three guys and a garage founding great enterprises. And here we have three guys, and through blogs, interviews, and constant attendance at conferences, they have become some of the […]