Any "semantic web" programmers here? What is the future of the Semantic Web?
russell: I am a crank WRT the semantic web.  Sure, there will be pockets of success, but I think the whole concept is very 19th century.  It is almost the opposite of the network effect; it is not of much use unless a significant portion of the sites on the web are marked up.  Its whole search mechanism is logic based, while much out there in non-logical.  There is all that W3C navel gazing to learn.  Just about anything designed by a committee, in anticipation of a revolution, fails.I think the semantic web will fail because more revolutionary technologies will pop up out of nowhere and surprise us all.