Tuesday, April 15, 2003

I mean, do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?. I've been having an agreeable chat with, among others, Danny Ayers about ENT, RDF, and ThreadsML.  Danny expressed some concerns about the dangers of re-inventing wheels.  I share his concern although our viewpoints are perhaps a little different. I want to share part of one my messages: My view is that RDF is a great way of doing things as long as it is wrapped with 1st rate tool support and matched with applications that warrant it. So far as I can tell both of those are near to non-existant right now and RDF remains primarily the domain of "those people who are interested in RDF and think it is a good idea," with a few exceptions. Back when Paolo and I were tossing this idea around we carefully thought over "are we re-inventing RDF" and came to the answer: "no." ENT is, by comparison, pretty simple/limited compared to RDF. But right now I think simplicity is more valuable thanpower. We are still in the early stages of building the semantic web and, really, the applications we have don't *need* RDF's power right now. We think ENT is "just good enough" to launch a raft of exciting applications. I fully expect though, that those applications will grow too big for ENT and simple "hard-wired" standards like it. But this demand will, perhaps, lead to an awakening about RDF. It's time will have come because there will be applications that justify it's complexity & the perceived benefits of those applications will be enough to overcome the inertia involved in getting started with it. And, hopefully, by that time the RDF folks will have delivered much more solidly on the tools front ;) In short my belief is that simple, focused, standards now will pave the way for the adoption of more powerful standards later. Also, as I have stated before, I don't think that RDF will really hit a home run until OWL is ready for prime-time.  [Curiouser and curiouser!]

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C# XML-RPC client XmlRpcCS 1.8 [freshmeat.net] An C# XML-RPC client and server for .NET applications.

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MIMEDefang 2.32 [freshmeat.net]

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Poincaré Conjecture May Be Solved. Flamerule writes "The New York Times is now reporting that Dr. Grigori (Grisha) Perelman, of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of ... [Slashdot]

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Reading French 'informatique à la rescousse des maisons de disque. Libération: "Ce serait un peu comme si Peter Pan faisait alliance avec le capitaine Crochet. Pour l'instant, beaucoup estiment que le rachat du géant de la musique Universal Music par le constructeur informatique américain Apple relève du mythe. Mais que l'accord aboutisse ou pas, les experts estiment que ces négociations montrent à quel point les maisons de disque et les constructeurs informatiques ont plus que jamais besoin les uns des autres. La différence, cette fois, c'est que l'industrie du disque y met de la bonne volonté" J'ai plus ou moins arrété d'acheter des CDs. J'ai acheté le dernier Placebo, mais... [Too Much News] I'm amazed how many words I picked up while reading this.  Yep, I need to continue to improve my French skills.

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I need a wiki!. Man, there's always so many little things I'd like to put in a wiki... I gotta get my wiki code running. It's really almost done, but I've been working really slow. [Keith's Weblog]

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