Tom Morris: 2007-10-05

2007.10.05

Andrew Bate has a great blog post from FOWA. From what I've heard the attitude to the Semantic Web which seems to consist of people sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting "La! La! La! We've got microwaves now, we have no need for ovens! La! La! La!". Marketing types do this a lot. New automatically beats old, regardless of the merits of old or new. Hence the Web's utterly pointless version numbers ("I'm building a Web 4.0 application! I win!"). It's really getting utterly boring to deal with this unthinking dismissal of anything that's not cool and zany just based on marketing speak, rather than rational comprehension of the technology. 2007-10-05T12:00:00Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: Kent, England

Usually in: East Sussex, England

I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.

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