Re: HumanMarkup Reservations

[cagle@olywa.net (Kurt Cagle)]

Len,

> We spent a lot of time here nailing this thing
> down.  Don't start piling up new timber unless
> we are adding a garage.  People should read
> the examples and prototype work.   Discussions
> that veer off into why the semantic web won't
> work, schemas suck, etc. should be ignored.
> Done that already.  Don't confuse the tools
> with the content.

I'll plead mea culpa on this, and am reviewing the documents. I realize that
a significant amount of work has already been done on this; but am
responding to things as I encounter them.

> And which you should learn to ignore.  Did anyone
> who read all the early email think the results
> would be otherwise?

While to a certain extent I agree with you, I also think that there may be a
very distinct danger if the media is ignored too much. This is getting into
their domain, in a way that business processes or schema seldom do, and I
could see it becoming a flashpoint if that aspect is not carefully managed.
I am in the media -- I write articles for trade publications, but I've had
pieces picked up more than once that have appeared in the general
publications arena -- and I know that pretending that the media doesn't
exist or is irrelevant in cases like this becomes an open invitiation to
perhaps unwelcome (and certainly not unbiased) media coverage. Just my two
cents worth.

-- Kurt