An Experience with Multimedia

Today, I received a most heartwarming baby gift from a group of my cohort peers (the Bettendorf gang)... It's a little jumper that says, "I (heart) Metadata!" ...It's a funny thing really, because last fall we were eating, sleeping, and drinking metadata in Cliff's class, Organization of Information (or maybe that was the book), but here I am reading more from Warlick and he says,

"Today, as information flows through a growing number of new applications, it tends to carry with it information about itself, enabling information to organize itself dynamically, as a function of its being and its flow."

THAT'S METADATA! You have to understand the humor here... it took me a LONG time to grasp the concept of metadata, and now I must get it.