Haven't had you fill of semantic web nonsense recently? Then enjoy reading A Smarter Web, Technology Review's love letter to information processing pipe dreams. Some quotes for you, taken from the article:
It hasn't helped that until very recently, much of the work on the Semantic Web has been hidden inside big companies or research institutions, with few applications emerging. ...

RDF allowed developers to write software without worrying about widely varying content-use restrictions or national regulations, all of which could be accommodated afterwards using RDF's Semantic Web linkages. ...

The effort to build the Semantic Web has been well publicized, and Berners-Lee's name in particular has lent its success an air of near-inevitability. But its visibility has also made it the target of frequent, and often harsh, criticism. ...

Harsh criticism? Yes. But frequent? Maybe there'd be frequent criticism if there actually were any semantic web systems doing anything that mattered.
techbad
  2007-03-17 20:29 Z