The World’s First Mainstream Semantic Web
2008-07-19 09:01:50
The vast majority of semantic technologists are directing their efforts to search. It’s an important use of their talents; search is a hard problem worth solving. But it seems to me that we need to take a broader view. Semantic
s is the stuff of thought, of meaning, of our most personal and deeply held beliefs. [...]
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No Need to Argue Personal Semantics
2008-07-02 16:29:23
In December 2006, James Kim and his family were stranded, their car stuck in heavy snow. After a week, fearing for their survival, James headed out into the wilderness to find help. In the dead of winter, he was wearing nothing but street clothes. His family was found in their car two days later, alive [...]
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When Semantics Becomes King
2008-06-11 15:49:12
Content is king, an annoyingly loud, ostentatious, and over-bearing king. I’m hunting for a new car and I’m drowning in content: auto-makers’ websites, reviews, test reports, consumer opinions, and dealer listings. I’ve retrieved hundreds of pages in total, costing me countless hours of time. The amount of useful information I’ve extracted is minuscule by comparison. [...]
A Made-To-Order Web
2008-05-22 20:44:54
The Web suffers a fundamental problem. Search is a symptom of it. Surfing is a symptom of it. Even the website itself is a symptom of it. The problem is that content is organized for you, in advance. Pre-packaged content is like ordering off the menu at a restaurant. Sometimes it’s convenient, sometimes it’s just [...]
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The Semantic Web Isn’t Just a Data Web
2008-08-20 20:09:01
The Semantic
Web has a branding problem: It was built to manage data, not semantics. Somewhere along the line, insiders renamed it the “Data Web”. That was a great move for Web researchers, but what will the semantics crowd do with the name? Just as “semantics” was misplaced in the Data Web, “web” is misplaced [...]
An Introduction to Thought Networking
2008-09-17 06:01:16
Our thoughts are fleeting and immaterial, this mysterious stuff that’s locked away in our heads. Painstakingly, we collect our thoughts and transform them into words and documents. This transformation from thought into action is time-consuming and expensive. Thinking is a decidedly “offline” and manual process.
What would happen if you could instead make your thoughts tangible [...]
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