Greatest Task of Web 2.x: Meta-Validation 161
CexpTretical writes "This Technology Review article about Web 2.x problems fails to mention the 800 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to fulfilling the dreams of the Semantic Web — i.e., assumptions about the validity of metadata or tagging schemes. We can add all of the metadata and/or tags we want to web resources but that does not mean that the 'data about the data' honestly or accurately describe the resource or are 'about the data' at all. This is why Google does not place much importance on the metadata already contained in HTML document headers for search ranking, because it cannot be trusted. And to validate it would require more effort than to search and index that data from scratch. Ensuring or verifying the validity of metadata would be a task equal to that of initially creating it, but would have to be repeated on an ongoing basis. Hence all of the talk about 'trusted networks,' which then require trusting the gatekeepers of those networks. Talk about 'semantics.'" Slashdot's moderation and meta-moderation offer one example of getting useful metadata in a non-trusted environment.
Re:Speaking of Slashdot's metadata... (Score:4, Funny)
Please move along folks, there's nothing to see here.
Hal Porter, what are your thoughts? (Score:2, Funny)
FIRST POST v 2.X (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Speaking of Slashdot's metadata... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You can't trust the moderation system either (Score:2, Funny)
Now do you get it?
Re:Greatest Task of Web 2.0: Materialization (Score:3, Funny)
* Cure Cancer
* Solve World Hunger
* End All War
* Show Us the One True God
* Eliminate Spam
* Turn Janet Reno Into a Beautiful Woman
* Help Pandas Mate
* Prevent Dupe Articles on
As you can see, Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword - it is a miracle!
Another 800 pound gorilla sighting? (Score:3, Funny)
Whether emitting gas or validating meta-information, this gorilla has maintained his importance and kept his mass steadily high. Are there larger gorillas? And if there were, would it matter?
Some thoughts to ponder while the pr0n is loading
Bad News, Folks... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Greatest Task of Web 2.0: Materialization (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Greatest Task of Web 2.0: Materialization (Score:1, Funny)
The ~real~ Greatest Task of Web 2.x (Score:3, Funny)
This is the war that desktop-bound Redmond cannot afford to lose. One browser to rule them all, the men of Middle Cubicle, the Dvorves of Dvorak, the Geeks of Ajax, the Elvish and the rhinestone-laden Elvish Impersonators. Starring...
The rest of this roman à clef I leave to you, my fellow Slash Hobbits.
Embrace the future. (Score:5, Funny)
For instance: "IT: Vista Designed to Make Malware Easy [slashdot.org]" is tagged "troll, fud, vista, notfud, microsoft". I mean -- that's it! That's the whole discussion right there. Point, spastic head-nodding, counterpoint, rehash of the original article. Thank you sir, may I have another.
I'm hopeful that on some future "Slashdot Mobile," they'll remove everything but the titles and tags, and display it as a feed. Maybe after that, they'll even get rid of the titles, so you can just see a constant stream of tags.
Forget a boot stamping on the face of humanity; that's the future for you: "microsoft fud notfud troll itsatrap google dupe evil internet hardware nvidia slashvertisement pigpile dupe sun esr fud ubuntu dupe microsoft dupe
Re:Speaking of Slashdot's metadata... (Score:3, Funny)