It’s just data
Joshua Allen: I'll use this as an opportunity to give testament to the virtues of Semantic Web.
Forgive me, Joshua, but it seems to me like you have made a compelling case for voice, but done so in a way that includes pretty much everything and excludes virtually nothing.
Just curious, how does this fit into the picture? I hate Detroit. Don't get excited, I have no personal opinion on Detroit, it is just an example.
The Google search turned up a good link right away http://www.me.mtu.edu/~prater/Detroit.html -- that guy captures it, down to the part about everyone including police running red lights. The part about homeless was unfair, though -- everyone is rude like that, not just the bums, and the bums are charming if you get to know them. They mention the projects where my car turned up the second time it was stolen; I believe those projects are torn down now. It is much more beautiful (in a bladerunner way) than he describes, though. My main regret from this last trip is that I did not take any pictures of the "Detroit Pigeons". The pigeons in Detroit are unlike any other city I have seen -- they are like angry mutant pigeons with mottled feathers in nasty uneven red black and brown, eyes different colors, limps and squawks -- and you can do pigeon tapping, since they come close enough.
Posted by Joshua Allen atRecap: mark "disparages" RDF/XML. Joshua categorize that as "disparages the semantic web" and then launches into a discussion of how important it is to be able to reliably find other voices. Such voices can be readily found today without recourse to RDF/XML.
Perhaps RDF/XML will ultimately be the path to the full semantic web. But until then, the assertion that RDF/XML == the semantic web == people is unproven.
Yeah, the comment on "disparages the semantic web" comes from:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/12/30.html#the_tag_soup_of_a_new_generation
Where he says "Regardless, I do not believe in the Semantic Web, XML-based or not." I believe that many people who feel this way are quite reasonable and usually just have a different concept of what the semantic web is than I do.