Comments on: Joho: Culture is an echo chamber

By: davidw

davidw — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:09:05 +0000

Thanks, Mirek. My attitude has been similarly ambiguous. I do like the schema.org/microformats approach because it’s more modest and incremental. It’s the attempt to get everything right that concerns me.

The comparison to SGML is entirely apt. It is in fact my involvement in some SGML efforts in the late 80′s and early 90′s that set many of my biases/prejudices about attempts to drive conformity to complex standards.

By: Mirek Sopek

Mirek Sopek — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:40:24 +0000

I meant ingenious not ingenuous !
but maybe it was also a good way of praising SW :-)

By: Mirek Sopek

Mirek Sopek — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:37:56 +0000

Being on a business trip to Paris, I could not consume all of new posts to your zine but one – “In love with linked data”.

That’s great and simple explanation what LD (and LOD) initiative is all about. Thanks !

For years I witnessed your delicate “opposition” to the SW as it was initially proposed. I agreed with some thoughts (mainly from EiM book), disagreed with some other.
And I always have been confronting my own admiration of SW with Cory Doctorow’s “meta-crap” manifesto (even recently during a meeting with Yahoo/Google key panel in Berlin I did so, this time “against” schema.org)

I think SW is great and the reason that LD is so beautiful is because it uses those ingenuous SW inventions (URI, semantic links etc). But I also think we need to confront it,
we need to be its advocatus diaboli – just to make it better, or to understand it better…

LD is light is simple, is to grand SW like XML (and maybe HTML) to its grand-parent SGML…

And is for us, not for these morons “machines” :-)

I like it and promote it too… (e.g. : here)

Thanks David !