[Sigia-l] Semantic Technologies - Jan. 25th Taxonomy Community Call

[Stewart Dean]

On 17/1/06 1:38 am, "Seth Earley" <seth at earley.com> wrote:


> What are Semantic Technologies and Why Should I Care?

How about you actually tell people here what it is rather than wasting out
time with what smells like snake oil?

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> You can also download the free report on semantic technologies by Mills
> Davis http://www.semantic-conference.com/semanticwave.html

>From that page:

" The guide is organized as follows:
­ Semantic wave — Introduces “distributed intelligence” as a long wave of
investment involving fundamental shifts in paradigm, technology, and
economics. Depicts the cumulative economics of the semantic wave. "

Etc.

Can people write things like that with a straight face? It's as clear as mud
and essentially written in business speak in it's worst form. In short, if
the people behind this idea can't write intelligent English instead of
advertorial gibberish why should anyone take it seriously?

Stewart Dean