Metadata

Just a short thought, but have you noticed that people seem to be taking advantage of metadata more and more often as of late when it comes to storytelling? Webcomics everywhere (notably Dinosaur Comics) take advantage of the image tooltip description field to get another one-liner in. Twitter, too has led to an interesting usage of metadata: thanks to hash tags, Twitter users have started posting ironic tweets, using the hash tags as a big wink, one that lets the audience in on the joke.

I think I may just have found myself a print culture essay topic.