Tom Morris



2007.10.05

  No. 680 

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. 2007-10-05T12:00:00ZUntitled entry permalink

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