On Monday 16 January 2006 09:47 pm, Todd Walton wrote: > On 1/16/06, Jeff Dooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interestingly, the web isn't immune to problems of "centralization" or > > whatever you want to call it. Over time, some sites become more > > popular than others which leads to more word of mouth or press, which > > leads to more popularity, etc. I found Clay Shirky's essay on Power > > Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality to be a very interesting read.
Me too. I examined this phenomena in a local context here http://www.prencesita.com/MailStat/ a few moths ago. > Which all, I believe, logically follows from Shirky's essay. An essay > of his I don't like is "The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview". > He says: Yakety, yak. Again I agree with your view. The important thing about the unnecessarily cumbersome mechanisms that have derived from the simple triplicate at the base of the "Semantic Web" is that we get a decent mechanism for annotating website (and hence weblogs). For old opinions (1999-2000) on this subject see http://tinyurl.com/a3whd To tell the truth I don't much care for weblogs and do not often read them. I like conversation, e.g. email much better than pontification and pundits. Dammit! I quit a bunch of Yahoo groups in order to spend less time on what is basically just BSing with the guys ... and then I get back heavier into the Kooler. It seems that I have some hydraulic need to spew a certain (actually fairly large number of words every day ...) maybe I should quit fighting it and start a blog. Oh well, So it goes, BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
