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From the Uber-nerd files: Metacrap

Just call me The Vengeful Info-Ninja.

I'm sorry, you're just gonna have to read the article to find out why.

The article is Metacrap, by Cory Doctorow, co-administrator of boingboing

Yes, I understand that I'm devoting an entire entry to people and articles that don't share my belief in the value of what I do. Our conflict lies at the junction of the public web (very shallow) with the "deep web" (huge silos of data, datasets, journal articles, learning objects). These articles discuss the application of metadata to the public web, where Google has correctly chosen to leverage the semantic connections (link choices) of its users because the lowest common denominator rules. If porn comes up highest on a search its because that's accurately a reflection of what the majority of people are searching for with that search string. I'd be willing to bet that Google has to significantly change its approach as it gains access to academic and similar repositories of content resulting from intellectual inquiry.

Other sites of interest:

Rawbrick on the Semantic Web (One) (Two)

Caveat Lector on the Semantic Web (One) (Two) (Three)

Clay Shirky on The Semantic Web

Finally, The Semantic Web