The Semantic Web Meets The Blogosphere
Sergiy Grynko,
Aug 24, 2004
Let's begin with the end on this one, a very Kantian thought: "each animal in cyberspace is a placeholder for a human being with a certain unique sphere of interests. This way, no node in the network is ever redundant or obsolete: everybody contributes, and there is no dead weight." This is right, and deeply right. Now how does this come to be? "Blogs make the perfect basic units for a human-driven semantic web (just like neurons are the perfect basic units for a brain). Of course, this kind of a semantic web is an emergent behaviour rather than an intentional construct (anthill vs. bridge, to use cliche images)." Abstract this just a touch - after all, a person's web footprint doesn't have to be a blog. But the important message is this: people expect the cybersphere to be like a big expert system, with rules, categories, and inferences. But it won't work like that - look up combinatorial explosion. Via Monkeymagic.
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