| Jon Udell on the passive-aggressive Semantic Web
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He doesn't call it that, but his column in InfoWorld, "Bootstrapping the Semantic Web" makes a fascinating point. At a site that aggregates info about people
... I show up as executive editor of Byte Magazine and contributor to Linux Magazine. And while those were once accurate descriptions of me, I have never been a member of Blue Titan's board of advisors, and I am not the inventor of RSS.
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Semantic-Web naysayers think people and organizations can't be bothered to assert machine-readable facts about themselves. And, today, that is undoubtedly true. But when others assert facts about you -- as they increasingly will -- the tide could begin to turn. Individual acts of self-defense may ultimately combine to bootstrap the semantic Web.
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by D. Weinberger at December 8, 2004 02:36 PM