Reading "Ambient Findability", I came across Peter Morville's discussion of the Semantic Web, which references Shirky's lame criticism of it ("The Semantic Web is a machine for creating syllogisms"). He also quotes David Weinberger: I fear that the Semantic Web will go the way of SGML and for basically the same reason: normalization of metadata works real well in confined applications where the payoff is high, control is centralized and discipline can be enforced. In other words: not the Web. Reading such comments confounds me, since they've got it *exactly* wrong. The Semantic Web approach is LOOSE, not normalized. The...