- From: Matt Jensen <mattj@newsblip.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:33:23 -0500 (EST)
- To: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- cc: Gordon Joly <gordo@dircon.co.uk>, Craig Pugsley <craig.pugsley@mimesweeper.com>, "'www-rdf-interest@w3.org'" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "'semantic-web@w3.org'" <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, William Loughborough wrote: > Any idea why it can't be done this year? Well, I was trying to cover myself :-) I'm imagining that first a group of technologists has to "agree" on some kind of standard, and then their work has to be adopted by a large enough group of webmasters for the whole thing to be "useful". However, because the Web is described by Zipf's law [1], you might get good value out of convincing "only" the top 100 sites (in page views) to implement your semantic system. Then a form of Metcalfe's law [2] applies, where other web sites have more and more reasons to join. -Matt Jensen NewsBlip Seattle --- [1] http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/zipf/ [2] http://www.mgt.smsu.edu/mgt487/mgtissue/newstrat/metcalfe.htm
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