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Continuing what is apparently my new policy of only blogging about Wikipedia, with occasional posts about how Bush sucks: Jay Fienberg recommends that we take a look at the Semantic MediaWiki if we want to see the Semantic Web in action. He says that it even shows that RDF can be easy to use.

He also points out (in an email) that Pandora, a music taste site that's got lots of people excited, uses a "ginormous faceted taxonomy/ontology." (Just to make my position clear, if I actually have one: Local ontologies obviously can be highly useful. The question is how hard is it to knit them together reasonably well? And then the question is what counts as reasonably well. But one thing we know for sure: Bush sucks.)

Finally, Jay recommends a post by Steve Krause about Pandora vs. Last.fm. "Pandora's recommendations are based on the inherent qualities of the music," says Steve, while Last.fm is a collaborative filter. [Tags: jay_fienberg steve_krause pandora taxonomy ontology everything_is_miscellaneous EverythingIsMiscellaneous semantic_web wiki]