Who killed the networked fridge?

One of most memorable parts of the Euro IA conference was Adam Greenfield’s comment during his keynote regarding the networked fridge.
“Unless anyone here works for Philips, I’m fairly certain that nobody in this room wants or will ever buy a networked fridge.”
http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2008/09/euroia2008_part1.php

Fair point but I wanted to revisit the concept with regard to the big [...]

Wikipedia as controlled vocabulary

Chris Sizemore and I gave this presentation a while back at the Essentials of Metadata and Taxonomy event. The presentation looked at the use of Wikipedia as a source of controlled vocabulary.
Wikipedia as controlled vocabulary
view presentation (tags: wikipedia linkeddata metadata cv)

Chris covers most of the issues we discussed in his post. But one thing [...]

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