Friday’s holiday event at hatfactory had a great crowd. The coworking space tends to attract a really great mix of positive energy geeks, as well as alternative living, transportation, and media hackers.
I was delighted to run into my favorite think-tank couple, Linda and Erick Von Schweber. I was even more delighted to see that Erick was donning a tag-cloud name badge illustrating his various interests “for the month”.
Apparently Erick is not alone, he pointed me to “Daniel Steinbock, a PhD student at Stanford, who independently began producing and wearing a tag cloud tag, or cloud tag for short.”
I think its a brilliant idea to help people connect a little faster at gatherings. Now if only we could have our digital meta-data broadcast locally over bluetooth. Then we could get little software filters that help us automatically match interests with other nearby people. The system could apply a small voltage to give us a tingly feeling whenever someone interesting comes near… heyyyyy… wait a minute…