- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:28:46 +0100
- To: public-sweo-ig@w3.org
- Cc: "Bill de hOra" <bill@dehora.net>
The other day I challenged Bill deHora to be more specific about some criticism. Soon after he gave a solid response [1], but in passing suggested: "typing rdf sucks into a search engine is a good start". Out of curiosity I tried it, checking the first 20 hits on Google. Obviously it's not exactly stringent test of popular opinion, but it was quite interesting (and Bill was right about views on RDF/XML). In summary, RDF sucks because of - RDF/XML : 5 Model/logic issues : 2 Various/non-specific : 2 Not relevant/duplicates : 11 URIs/notes below. Cheers, Danny. [1] http://dannyayers.com/2006/11/10/not-really-flames-more#comments see also : "Where to go from here" http://www.dehora.net/journal/2006/11/post_2.html 1 http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/2003/07/29/why-rdf-sucks RDF/XML 2 http://shelter.nu/blog-078.html model/logic issues 3 http://www.movableblog.com/asides/2003/07/31/723 pointer to 1 4 http://dannyayers.com/2006/11/10/not-really-flames-more Bill's comment (!) 5 http://www.dehora.net/journal/2003/08/the_road_to_damascus_jon_udell_and_rdf.html RDF/XML (unavailability of XSLT etc - in a comment at Bill's (!!)) 6 http://del.icio.us/dge77/RDF tags of "pkoi rdf sucks" on http://laurentszyster.be/blog/the-naked-rdf-king/ model issues (mostly) (also points to Shirky's "Syllogisms" piece: http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html) 7 http://www.ontogon.com/movabletype/archives/2005/09/rdfxml_sucks_x_1.html RDF/XML 8 http://practicalrdf.info/2002/12/ reporting on someone *not* saying "RDF sucks" 9 [very long URI] unrelated - Citywire on RDF Media PLC 10 http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/06/16/sucks "The orange XML icon sucks" - mentions popular confusion between RDF & RSS 11 http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/200305/post40070.html email subject "Re: XML Sucks" - has link to RDF-related post 12 http://www.mail-archive.com/www-archive@w3.org/msg00115.html "the RDF/XML Syntax Sucks" used as an example of an adjective (!?) 13 http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/20/dive.html RDF/XML 14 http://www.kannel.org/irc-sessions/2004-01-23/%23kannel.freenode.log "UAProf is unworkable and RDF sucks. We should use WURFL." (WURFL?) 15 http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg05681.html various reasons (some plus points listed too) 16 http://corrente.blogspot.com/2005/07/coatlique-meet-darwin.html not relevant (couldn't see the string RDF, clicking on Google's cached version it said : "These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: rdf") 17 http://www.8bitjoystick.com/index.rdf not relevant (it's an RSS 1.0 feed, Google decided on the title "rdf") 18 http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/000034.html RDF/XML 19 http://shelter.nu/shelter.xfml has link to 2 20 http://www.disobey.com/detergent/2002/sw123/ a Semantic Web tutorial "These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: sucks" -- http://dannyayers.com
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