Re: SWEO thoughts?

On 18/12/06, Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure what SWEO is,

As cc'd, Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/

More generally - still an open question ;-)

but my feeling is and pretty much always
> has been that the Semantic Web people need to start putting together
> Genuinely Useful stuff that can be done Right Now.

Thanks, nicely put.

That's what I tried
> to push with MusicBrainz and Creative Commons but now SW has such a
> bad rap that I wonder if it's too late.

I take your point, but I'm still optimistic, not least because I find
it difficult to imagine what a future web would be like that wasn't a
SW, or something very similar. ('Course, that could just be failure of
imagination).

> But last night I had a dream where Dan Connolly told me my website was
> down so maybe I'm just feeling angry.

Nooooooo!!

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Danny.


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