Hi all,

This thread seems to me to be classic "neat vs. scruffy" argument [1].  I used 
to be a neat, when I was young, foolish and of course selfish.  Now that I am 
old enough to see others' points of view, I have become scruffy.  Either that, 
or I'm just tired of trying to force others to do things my way.

The Web is a scruffy place and that is a feature, not a bug.

Regards,
Dave

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neats_vs._scruffies


On Jun 17, 2011, at 10:27, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

> On 6/17/11 2:55 PM, Ian Davis wrote:
>>> BUT when the click a "Like" button on a blog they are expressing they like 
>>> the
>>> >  blog, not the movie it is about.
>>> >
>>> >  AND when they click "like" on a facebook comment they are
>>> >  saying they like the comment not the thing it is commenting on.
>>> >
>>> >  And on Amazon people say "I found this review useful" to
>>> >  like the review on the product being reviewed, separately from
>>> >  rating the product.
>>> >  So there is a lot of use out there which involves people expressing
>>> >  stuff in general about the message not its subject.
>> As an additional point, a review_is_  a seperate thing, it's not a web
>> page. It is often contained within a webpage. It seems you are
>> conflating the two here. Reviews and comments can be and often are
>> syndicated across multiple sites so clearly any "liking" of the review
>> needs to flow with it.
> 
> Yes, it is a separate thing representable as a Data Object. Now the obvious 
> question: what is a Web Page? Isn't that a sourced from Data at an Address 
> that's streamed to a client that uses a specific data presentation metaphor 
> as basis for user comprehension?
> 
> Are the following identical or different, re. URI functionality ?
> 
> 1. http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data
> 2. http://dbpedia.org/page/Linked_Data
> 3. http://dbpedia.org/data/Linked_Data.json .
> 
> I may want to bookmark: http://dbpedia.org/page/Linked_Data, I may also be 
> interested in its evolution over time via services lime memento [1] .
> 
> The thing is that re. WWW we have an Information Space dimension and 
> associated patterns that's preceded the Data Space dimension and emerging 
> patterns that we (this community) are collectively trying to crystallize, in 
> an unobtrusive manner.
> 
> Links:
> 
> 1. http://www.mementoweb.org/guide/quick-intro/
> 
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> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kingsley Idehen       
> President&  CEO
> OpenLink Software
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