After reading your ISCOC04 talk, I got my own 2 cents to throw into the ring. Thanks to Roland for the inpriation…..

I’m gonna pick up on your statement:

By contrast, the RSS model is easy with an almost arbitrary set of known properties for an item in a list such as the name, the description, the link, and mime type and size if it is an enclosure. As with HTML, there is just enough information to be useful. Like HTML, it can be extended when necessary, but most people do it judiciously. Thus Blogreaders and aggregators can effortlessly show the content and understanding that the value is in the information. Oh yes, there is one other difference between Blogreaders and Infopath. They are free. They understand that the value is in the content, not the device.

The emphasis on the word - KNOWN - is your own, and I want to just point out - that despite your claims that Blogreaders and RSS aggregators know all about the properties and attributes of this ’stuff’ that’s coming through them, like:

talk shows and play lists (podcasting) photo albums (Flickr), schedules for events, lists of interesting content, news, shopping specials, and so on.

in fact - they DON’T know doodley squat about said ‘micro-content’ (if I could use the phrase.)

That’s the rub.

You can’t have a Web 2.0 without knowing what the hell is going on.

The example of Podcasting is a PERFECT example.

Who’s on the Podcast? How long is it? What it is about, what was covered during the casting? Where are the comments and trackbacks? Isn’t there ANYTHING about a Podcast you want to know - Adam?

I can’t believe that a smart guy like you could advocate Poscasting as a solution to the complexity of the semantic web and all that enterprise, corporate complexity - without a hint of meta-data - anywhere.

How’s the work? Inference? Osmosis?

I know that Google is known as an anti-meta-data sort of place - but PLEASE oH LORd - get over that!

This is NOT about the religious wars of RSS 1.0 vs RSS 2.0. I couldn’t give a dam about rdf, T B-L or any of that semantic web hooey.

I’d just like to see folks standardize on attributes, properties and meta-data around these new, burgeoning forms of micro-content.

Don’t start talking Events, Reviews or Listings being slammed into a dumb field - and losing all their structure.

Please.

That’s so, so, so, so, so, so…… 90’s of you.

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