Nova Spivak really gets it
Usually when I hear about the thinking behind new web technology I dismiss it pretty quickly. That’s not because I don’t like what people are doing or find it interesting, I just find that almost everything is some kind of application built on an old framework. I’m much more interested in trying to change the framework itself.
I’ve been aware of Radar Networks for some time. I talked to Tim O’Reilly about Fluidinfo in March 2007, and he compared what I was saying to Nova’s claims for Radar. Now that Radar have released Twine, I’ve gone and read some of Nova’s blog postings. I probably should have done that ages ago.
It turns out we agree on many things. Here’s one in particular, in an article entitled Understanding The Semantic Web: A Response to Tim O’Reilly’s Recent Defense of Web 2.0, he has a section entitled “THE SEMANTIC WEB IS THE DATA WEB” which corresponds nicely to my why data (information representation) is the key to the coming semantic web posting.
That’s pretty refreshing. And there’s more, including well-aligned and practical thinking about the word “semantic” and various other words.
I may say more in another posting.
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