27. A method comprising: recognizing an aspect of an item in response to an annotation environment signal that includes a context information indicative of a recognizable aspect of an item, the recognizable aspect of the item being indicative of an incidental element capable of distinguishing the item, the incidental element comprising at least a physical attribute of the item; processing the annotation environment signal, the processing comprising at least a pre-recognition stage, a slicing stage, and a marking stage; recognizing a user expression associated with the recognizable aspect of the item in response to an expression signal that includes an annotation information indicative of a user expression associated with the recognizable aspect of the item; and electronically associating the recognized user expression and the recognizable aspect of the item.
27. A method comprising: recognizing an aspect of an item in response to an annotation environment signal that includes a context information indicative of a recognizable aspect of an item, the recognizable aspect of the item being indicative of an incidental element capable of distinguishing the item, the incidental element comprising at least a physical attribute of the item; processing the annotation environment signal, the processing comprising at least a pre-recognition stage, a slicing stage, and a marking stage; recognizing a user expression associated with the recognizable aspect of the item in response to an expression signal that includes an annotation information indicative of a user expression associated with the recognizable aspect of the item; and electronically associating the recognized user expression and the recognizable aspect of the item. 55. The method of claim 27 , wherein the marking stage includes marking segments of the annotation environment signal based upon at least one of one or more GPS coordinates, and/or a temperature, and/or an orientation parameter of a device that generated the annotation signal.