The Cost of Metadata

Tracking Tim Bray's comments from the Shirky flap led me to an earlier post of his, the essence of which I'd noted to myself while reading Clay's article. It's an idea that has been said before: markup (metadata) that matters enough will work (be produced / used)....

But how much is enough to matter?

I see it in the ResumeBlog project - moving folks to simply open their resume / career content to the web via blog post is much harder than it would seem for some...(and we're working on why...)

Call it a metadata potential well....