Today, I listened to Weinberger's Miscellany on Open Source. It's an excellent programme, and David Weinberger describes the vision of the Semantic Web that I have - only he doesn't think it's the Semantic Web. That is the problem we need to resolve. A lot of people have a really cool vision and they think the Semantic Web is basically all the stuff that sucks and is preventing that vision from happening. It's not. Come on in, the water's good! 

Shelley Powers has a great post on microformats and accessiblity where RDF is brought up as a 'scare technology'. Wooooo! We're going to eat your babies if you don't watch out! We're going to be coming at you with ...AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH!... custom DTDs! The horror!!! 

Jeremy Keith writes of 'POSH Patterns': "I intend to start publishing and discussing my own POSH patterns. I encourage you to do the same. Just don't call them microformats." Well, you can always use Get Semantic to publish your crazy ideas for semantic formats. We'll try and brush them up and make them look respectable.  

Ophelia Benson: "'after really wrestling with the language and the mode of expression, we feel that we are in fact thinking more deeply about the issues of philosophy.' Yes, we feel that we are, but that's an illusion, created by the merely surface-level difficulty. And then the absurdity of saying that 'because they are so clear, they tell you nothing.' That's so silly and so perverse that I hope it's genuine and not a joke - but it's so silly and so perverse that it probably is a joke."