- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:04:34 -0400
- To: public-xg-webid@w3.org
On 4/28/11 9:37 AM, Henry Story wrote: > When setting out to make a new discovery one always has to differentiate oneself from the > others, by emphasizing certain things that appear irrational and unimportant to the main team. > A vegetarian for examples makes a decision to stop eating meat. Back home in Nigeria we have a saying that goes something like this: When a chicken visits a new patch its stands on one foot first. Sadly, Microsoft messed up the concept of: embrace and extend, so its hard to simply say: embrace and extend, when you have unobtrusive introduction of new innovations in mind. This is all about the same fundamental theme: be broad and inclusive at all times when introducing new concepts to an existing continuum. What of the greatest powers of WebID is that it will soon unveil what I call "the magic of being you" . This is about the fact that you know yourself best. That doesn't mean your context lenses apply to everyone who observes or encounters 'You'. Thus, you have to be ready at all times to accept insights from others. You have a repeating theme that in my eyes is broken. It goes something like this: time constraints and priorities are the reasons why we have to make compromises that are politically insensitive. The good and bad of a global web is that we have a lethal vector. Once an anomaly is out, it propagates exponentially. None of us have the power to reign it in etc.. Let's be gentle and inclusive. Nothing is utterly useless, irrespective of its perceived imperfections. Likewise, nothing is perfect since imperfection if a Universal feature :-) WebID, Linked Data, the Semantic Web Project etc.. All have the ability to to succeed on their own merits. Thus, they all benefit immensely from politically savvy inclusion re. meme propagation. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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