Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Blahsploitation ...
Blahsploitation ...: "Danny Ayers is still valiantly defending the Semantic Web.
But frankly, all the alleged rebuttals are just shooting at a straw-man of their own.
The basic Clay Shirky critique of the SW is that the pain outweighs the potential benefits, and so it's not going to work. Instead, we're going to get machine-readable markup by small, self-interested increments rather than using the W3C solution. Two years on, that assertion looks pretty strongly backed up by events."
But frankly, all the alleged rebuttals are just shooting at a straw-man of their own.
The basic Clay Shirky critique of the SW is that the pain outweighs the potential benefits, and so it's not going to work. Instead, we're going to get machine-readable markup by small, self-interested increments rather than using the W3C solution. Two years on, that assertion looks pretty strongly backed up by events."