Steve Gillmor and meta-meta-data. It reminds me of the recent report on Powerset, a new search engine that uses natural speech.

While Google counts books “for” children, books “by” children, and books “about” children similarly, Powerset does not.

And just like facial and tonal gestures which change the meaning of something we say, so will the meta-meta gestures change the information we receive when we ask for it, or simply imply the need for it.

But Steve is still talking aboutexplicit gestures, recorded from a keyboard and mouse.

I refer to a point I made some time back about passive, negative gestures.

And the best examle I came up with was geo-location. By virtue of the fact that I am in Texas, I provide a passive, negative gesture to my local saloon that I am not interested in a happy hour special which is happening in twenty minutes.

Despite the fact that thus far, every explicit gesture I’ve ever recorded indicates that I should be.

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