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RE: Yet Another Marketing Problem

From: Hausenblas, Michael <michael.hausenblas@joanneum.at>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:23:08 +0200
Message-ID: <768DACDC356ED04EA1F1130F97D29852017A1CF0@RZJC2EX.jr1.local>
To: "Bijan Parsia" <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
Cc: "semantic-web at W3C" <semantic-web@w3c.org>


>(The link under "miserably" is:
>
>	http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
>
>)
>
>It's not just a marketing problem, of course :)

Seems we are in good company. The other four links are:

"W3C has failed" -> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/
"Over" ->  http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
"over" -> http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work
"over" -> http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/


Cheers,
	Michael

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 Michael Hausenblas, MSc.
 Institute of Information Systems & Information Management
 JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
  
 http://www.joanneum.at/iis/
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: semantic-web-request@w3.org 
>[mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Bijan Parsia
>Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:33 PM
>To: semantic-web at W3C
>Subject: Yet Another Marketing Problem
>
>
>http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=687
>
>""" An MBA should be able to tease this out a bit more effectively -  
>any decision only requires that you have answers for five questions:  
>why? what? how? when? who?
>Answering these for pushing the web forward is straightforward, even  
>on a simplistic level:
>
>...How?: we could try asking the W3C to do it, but they don't have  
>any power. When they've been left to their own devices, the W3C has  
>failed. Miserably. Over and over and over again. Instead, browser  
>makers should introduce new stuff and then agree to agree on it (via  
>the W3C or similar organizations)."""
>
>(The link under "miserably" is:
>
>	http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
>
>)
>
>It's not just a marketing problem, of course :)
>
>Cheers,
>Bijan.
>
>
>
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