They hear something no one else can, but insist its worth paying attention to. Lots of hand waving. I think the concept of Semantic Web is sound, and I’ve been hearing about it for years how it’ll be the “next thing” or “Web ++” or what not. The execution, marketing, accessibility and elevator pitch for it however is horrific. Its like trying to explain sci-fi to my mom.
[From Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now - ReadWriteWeb ]
That would be ‘audiophiles’ — ‘philia’ being a Greek word for ‘love’.
But, yes, you’re right — I’m hard-pressed to tell the difference between vinyl and CD (/me == heathen), and I’m equally hard-pressed to see the benefit of RDF-embedded-in-XHTML over microformats-in-HTML. Sounds good on paper (? that’s a metaphor that doesn’t quite work 
but not so much (yet(?)) in the real world.
I’ve come to agree with those who say that users won’t create meaningful metadata unless it’s part of the data they’re creating, and so it’s more fruitful to work on engines that understand content and context, rather than make humans explicitly explain content by creating metadata.
This is pretty tractable for text content — full-text search engines are pretty good at extracting descriptive information from a corpus — but not so much for images, which is where I got the experience. Try to convince a photographer on deadline that he should be the one to fill out a dozen fields of descriptive info on each shot, rather than the librarian who won’t even get the pix for a couple of days.
At least you can just pop a DVD in the platyer and show some sci-fi to your Mom. (Tell her I said hi, BTW!). The Semantic Web might be easier to evangelize if there were some compelling example applications to point to.
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[From Music Industry Gurus' Five Point Plan to Save their Business | Listening Post from Wired.com]- #
Rauschenberg is one of my ultimate favorite artists and his passing is terribly sad
[From Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - New York Times]- #
this is fucking crazy.
[From Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing - Yahoo! News]- #
Funny thing is, with smart people, these are not challenges. With smart partners, they are open opportunities.
[From hypebot: Top 10 Issues Facing Music 2.0]- #
seriously: awesome news if this is true. I hope they provide API hooks through XMPP payloads as well, as some good ole stateful API programs would be every nice indeed. Death to HTTP polling! FBML pushes through XMPP for the win!
[From Breaking: Facebook to Launch Jabber/XMPP Support for Chat - The Unofficial Facebook Blog]- #
This is an incredible story that I didn't know much about, but every jew and non-jew should read and be inspired by.
[From Irena Sendler, 98; member of resistance saved lives of 2,500 Polish Jews - Los Angeles Times]- #
The ultimate twitter revenue is the use of premium SMS to provide for "fanclub" type feeds for some individuals. These would be exclusive feeds with some public messages and some private. For instance, imagine a band X that had a 1 dollar a month Twitter feed. The private 1 dollar a month feed included exclusive information, links to songs, etc. Also another twitter revenue source that can't happen if they don't fix their infrastructure: reselling the infrastructure! Getting good economies of scale with their SMS gateway and reuse from the HTTP and XMPP API's. The premium SMS one I've been hounding Ev and Biz about for a year now. I want it!
- #The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model - ReadWriteWeb
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I feel like Anne Sullivan: "IT HAS A NAME!" Well thank goodness for that, because after all this time I thought I was working on just Technology!
[From New Music Economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]- #
water finds its level
[From The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits]- #
Finally a nice use of Core Animation. Groovy and tactile.
[From Acrylic | Times]- #
- Music Industry Gurus’ Five Point Plan to Save their Business | Listening Post from Wired.com
- Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - New York Times
- Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing - Yahoo! News
- Cocoa Touch Developers
- hypebot: Top 10 Issues Facing Music 2.0
- Breaking: Facebook to Launch Jabber/XMPP Support for Chat - The Unofficial Facebook Blog
- Irena Sendler, 98; member of resistance saved lives of 2,500 Polish Jews - Los Angeles Times
- twitter revenue
- XMPP, Spread, Daemons, Python… aka a fun day being a geek.
- New Music Economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Well there’s your problem!
- The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits
- Acrylic | Times
- Postcards From Yo Momma
- twistori
- SanFran MusicTech Summit
- Interns needed at WBR
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