Comments on: Bookdrop tagging http://snarkmarket.com/2010/4687 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Tim Maly http://snarkmarket.com/2010/4687/comment-page-1#comment-8152 Tim Maly Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:27:34 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4687#comment-8152 So, this made me realize that we've been doing this for years with garbage and recycling. Some cities have revamped their tagging system several times (Toronto had blue bins and garbage, then blue bins, black bins and garbage, then blue, black, green and garbage and now blue, green and garbage). There's a mixture of crowd sourcing and then expert curation (the experts are poorly paid workers at facilities sorting through our coarsely sorted garbage). So, this made me realize that we’ve been doing this for years with garbage and recycling. Some cities have revamped their tagging system several times (Toronto had blue bins and garbage, then blue bins, black bins and garbage, then blue, black, green and garbage and now blue, green and garbage).

There’s a mixture of crowd sourcing and then expert curation (the experts are poorly paid workers at facilities sorting through our coarsely sorted garbage).

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