is not to think
the mind normally filled
with neurotic habits
and the challenge of artistic creativity
is to subvert cliche
(vs nabokov's gap-fillers)
and the scandal of philosophy
is the sophomoric sophistries
like free will or epistemological solipsism
tying innocent minds in useless knots
and usenet newsgroups often used to
suffer from negative intelligence
flamewars displacing constructive discussion
like coinage under gresham's law
or kneejerk techno-utopianism
urging (eg) educators
to squander their budgets on digital multimedia
when the real problem as always
is rewarding the best teachers
so the semantic web movement
for its earliest days
jumped the track
seduced by the shiny
techno quick fix
of xml
and its pie-in-the-sky promises
about embedded metadata
delivering only a flatline
adoption curve
while (eg) wikipedia
keeps rocketing up exponentially
and while journalistic coverage
of 'web 3.0' increases
the hype sounds more and more
hollow and anemic
rdf topicmaps microformats blahblahblah
endless jargonmania
but no 'there' there
never jam today
so i'll suggest again
that metadata belongs in the file header
(not in embedded markup)
and that wikipedia article titles
have solved one semantic problem
by automatically redirecting visitors
when an article title has changed
(i wish blogger did this)
so webpages can begin painlessly
categorizing themselves in their headers
with the closest wikipedia article title/s
and google should index these
with a special keyword
eg "wikiarticle:Ajax_(programming)"
but even more
we can categorise filetypes
"filetype:timeline"
and even more, i now propose
an ontology wiki
eg "ontoclass:business/merger"
that encourages experiment
and redirects changed classnames automatically
and that uses storycycles
as the macroformat
allowing description of
any random news story
any random wikipedia article
any random web resource
by sketching a universal
usual story
of everyperson (eg their wikipedia biographies)
of everyproduct (eg their history and web resources)
of everyprogram (eg the software lifecycle)
of everyenterprise (eg their corporate history)
of everyfile (its creation and dissemination)
ov everyword (its etymology)
of everyidea (its genesis and evolution)
of everyspecies (its selection pressures)
so that the metadata
for any given object
can emphasize precisely
those 'slots' in the usual storycycle
where the object's particular history
deviates from the usual expectations
these storycycles being compiled
incrementally, wiki-fashion
by storytellers who understand
the usual range of details
(a storycycle storycycle)
with an ongoing appreciation of the impermanence
of particular wording
or particular orderings
software storycycle
biography storycycle
business storycycle
hardware storycycle
.
