Begin forwarded message (from www-rdf-interest@w3.org):
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To those of us believing in Semantic Web, meta-data, ontologies and
such, this article by Clay Shirky:

http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html

might be quite traumatic. It posits that real world is too fuzzy and
too messy for any clean, deductive scheme to succeed.
I am curious to get your opinion on this article.

Good read
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I think this article is interesting (although some parts are quite boring).

My view is the following: Life is not perfect. The same goes for the Semantic Web. No one knows if the Semantic Web is the right thing or not until we actually try them out. It’s not important that the current technology is not perfect. What’s important is for the people who believe in the Semantic Web to actually build something useful that can potentially better everyday people’s life.

Related posts:

1. Shirky: The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview
3. Web Service API and the Semantic Web
4. Google VP on semantic search and the Semantic Web
5. Peter Patel-Schneider’s Semantic Web talk at Google on the Semantic Web