Posted in Semantic Web, web on Dec 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Thanks to all who commented to my previous post, it’s made me rethink and clarify my position on the problems with scaling Semantic Web technologies. I boiled it down to this:
Semantic Web clients beware: URIs are syntactically universal, not semantically universal.
The rationale for this is that although it is practically impossible for two disconnected parties […]
Posted in Semantic Web, web on Dec 12th, 2007 6 Comments »
I only just read Jim Hendler’s piece from last month “shirkying my responsibility”, in which he states that the W3C Semantic Web vision was never about a global shared ontology at all:
“Get it - we are opposing the idea of everyone sharing common concepts.”
This seems odd to me, because if that is the case and […]
Posted in workfriendly, programming on Dec 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Jeff Atwood’s blog is a good source for collected quotes. He’s at it again in his latest post: Are you a Doer or a Talker?:
In software, some developers take up residence on planet architecture.’
‘Working code attracts people who want to code. Design documents attract people who want to talk about coding.’
In my experience talkers gravitate […]
