RE: [syndication] Sneak Preview: my.info

["Per Kreipke" <per@onclave.com>]

> > This sort of represents the way I feel about the Web -- that each
> > site should try and focus on providing information rather than
"branding" and
> > creating an "experience". That's why I try and eliminate distinction
> > between various sources -- the goal is to get the news, who cares where
it comes from.

I'm not sure I'd be quite that cavalier about it. I don't consider The NY
Times or the Washington Post the same as most other news sources. Not all
news is equal in quality or trustworthiness. While the Drudge Report is
intesting reading, if he ever wrote about foreign policy, I'd doubt its
expertise and possibly it's veracity. In fact, it's only over time that he
has developed a measure of trust with his readers.

> > This is the direction that the web is moving to with XML and
> > RDF -- it's key to the Semantic Web.

Why do you think it's the key? I don't think one of the goals of the
Semantic Web is to hide the sources of things. I think it's goal is to make
data more expressive. That will probably include RDF statements about not
only *what* things are as well as *where* the came from (and possibly
qualitative statements about the trustworthiness of that claim (*why*) and
the (*who*) sources, etc.).

It seems to me that RDF is more a way of encoding for machines many of the
implicit and qualitative measures/statements that humans make or 'know'
about things (another stab at knowledge representation).

Per Kreipke
http://www.onclave.com