langreiter.com plain, simple: 2007-02-08

LANGREITER.COM plain, simple

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2007-02-08

CREATED BY chris • LAST EDITED BY chris 6500 days AGO

"In all the years that I've used RSS apps, I've never wanted this functionality. But then I never wanted [FeedBurner] either, and that's proven very popular."

Dave Winer on Yahoo! Pipes.

"[...] [W]e've sold 9 units. Based on previous trends, we expect there to be a dropoff after release."

Beware of Semantic Straightjackets, 2007 ed.^* If people like Jim Hendler start to acknowledge the pointlessness^** of Description Logics in a web context in fairly unequivocal terms, something has changed (and I'd say for the better).

"It may not be what the EU IST program is funding [...]"

One-line summary 1 (courtesy of Stefano Mazzocchi): "[...] [T]he idea that 'reasoning' must equal 'description logics reasoning' is [...] completely bizarre [...]"

One-line summary 2 (courtesy of Jim Hendler): "A little semantics goes a long way."

^* 2004-03-28-dreamCatcher
^** Okay, relative pointlessless. See here for full definition.