the fight for semantics. Jon Udell’ comments;s got a nice piece about the emergingly Semantic Blog. One part he missed was the emergence of CC licenses as part of the semantic blog space. Movabletype and Userland now both incorporate CC license options. The technique we’ve used with html has been questioned, but we are pushing hard to get RDF out there.

What’s needed is a killer app, and here’s where the powerful need to be responsive. Google in particular has not been receptive to becoming RDF-aware, making it harder to build the amazing Google hack that would enable a search such as “give me all the pictures of the Empire State Building available under a non-commercial license.” Perhaps here’s where competition between AllTheWeb, or Yahoo and Google may do some good.

Some say the reasons Google remains Semantic-ly-unaware are dark — that in a world of articulate pages, it is harder to be the dominant search engine. I’m not willing to believe this yet. I suspect instead that it is up to us to spread the semantic word, and then others will find more reason to pay attention to it.

[Source:Lessig Blog]
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Federal Court Recognizes File Sharing's Legitimacy. CNet: Judge: File-swapping tools are legal. "Defendants distribute and support software, the users of which can and do choose to...

[Source:Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
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