Continuano le discussioni sulle varie forme di condivisione delle idee: weblog, rss, web semantico. Oggi rilevo un commento di Jon Udell:
Jon Udell: "Ultimately, it's not about RSS any more than it was about NNTP. It's about the evolution of our species toward shared consciousness." [Scripting News],
il fatto che Apple ha trascurato SVG, che invece è un ottimo standard, che potrebbe liberarci dalla maledizione delle presentazioni flash:
Apple uses XML for new presentation format, but shuns SVG. Tim Bray pointed to an example of the XML vocabulary for Apple's new presentation program, Keynote. He also noted that "it includes a fairly complete vector-graphics facility." This led to discussion of why Apple chose not to use SVG for vector graphics [xmlhack],
una menzione di un motore di ricerca semantico sull'odiatissimo (non ho ancora capito perchè) Quinto Stato:
Arriva il blog semantico?. Creare un web intelligente, che sia in grado di interpretare le nostre esigenze nel modo più preciso possibile [Quinto Stato]
che però difficilmente potrà funzionare per molte ragioni. Come scrive Cory Doctorow:
Metadata exists in a competitive world. Suppliers compete to sell their goods, cranks compete to convey their crackpot theories (mea culpa), artists compete for audience. Attention-spans and wallets may not be zero-sum, but they're damned close.
That's why:
- A search for any commonly referenced term at a search-engine like Altavista will often turn up at least one porn link in the first ten results.
- Your mailbox is full of spam with subject lines like "Re: The information you requested."
- Publisher's Clearing House sends out advertisements that holler "You may already be a winner!"
- Press-releases have gargantuan lists of empty buzzwords attached to them.
Meta-utopia is a world of reliable metadata. When poisoning the well confers benefits to the poisoners, the meta-waters get awfully toxic in short order.
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