One of my co-workers, David Caulton, has joined the blogosphere. David is a great guy with lots of passion for digital media, analytics, and competitive analysis.  I recruited him hard "back in the day" to join our team and it's so great to see him jump into the pool. In his own words,

An avid hiker, biker, and father of three, I also work doing industry analysis and strategy for Microsoft. In previous lives, I've worked on the Windows Media Player, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Team Manager 97, been a researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience, a grad student, and a kid.

Yesterday during a discussion over lunch with some folks on a wide range of topics including Podcasting, the point was made that metadata is everything in a world where audio content often doesn't include closed-captioning to search for context.  David outlines the problems/challenges with tagging today in an article he wrote for Digital Media reviewers. The information here is topical and outlines the issues many of us have seen where the artist/album/title information just doesn't match up. Educational and insightful.