À ceux qui me méprisent

It's been a while, honey! Sit down…

Hi, it's been a while, right? Why don't you sit down? I think it's best if you do.

So, it's the third time, already. First time in 2002. Second time in 2003. Third time. I told you.

Formal Nakedness Apology

Last semantic web meetup took place on Feb 7 at the usual place and time. Martin, Vamshi and I were there. We glossed over the following topics :

Formal Nakedness at McGill University

Thought you'd like to know that formal nakedness-like topics are getting awareness in the academic world. From the summary, a talk on federated identity management & cryptography, given this Friday at McGill, sounds a lot like a formal nakedness apology. Anyways, thanks Vamshi for the scoop.

Montreal's First Semantic Web Meetup

Can someone tell me why the semantic web's deep philosophical aspects draw more attention than the engineering considerations? Why is nobody interested in practical semantic web conversations?

More, still, on the unbearable inevitability of discretization

Here is my answer to Martin's third post on why he opposes the semantic web idea. Basically, this is the famous J.R.

To Martin, more on the unbearable inevitability of discretization

These are additional details, inspired by Martin Lessard's comments .

The unbearable inevitability of discretization (2/2)

Here I am with part 2 of my attempt to undemonize the eventuality of an intelligent Semantic Web. BTW, you really should read part 1 first. Take note that I really consider the intelligent Semantic web machine as the system comprised by all the data, transport mechanisms, and agents (interactive or not) of the web.

Martin's follow-up

Martin Lessard, whose blog I couldn't find when writing my previous post, has committed a follow-up on the said previous post. Here is the english translation of my own summary of his text. I think I have extracted all of his arguments. I could probably have fused some of them, though.

The unbearable inevitability of discretization (1/2)

Almost a month ago, on tuesday June 8, I was at the RSS Meetup,, along with David Baron, Pierre-David Belanger, Karl Dubost, Lucas Gonze and Martin Lessard. BTW, thanks, Robin for inviting me and... for not showing up. ;-) Here is what I got out of it anyways...