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The Book is out! (And it's already #365 on the Amazon whatever-million.) Amazon and the other online book sellers are shipping it, and somebody has already spotted it in an airport book store. — Doc Searls
Tim likes conversation too: There is a nice interview with Tim Berners-Lee in the latest Internet World. Sample: I think the semantic Web, if you talk about this whole idea of how meaning can be formed from the grass roots, I think in a way that's a really difficult philosophical thing for people. Even though it's how natural language works; it's how people work. In reality, everybody uses terms in their own way, with all their differences: You say "coffee"--to different people, maybe different things have different significances, but everybody imagines that behind the use of the word "coffee" there's some platonic idea, that there's some correct encyclopedia definition of what coffee is. And in fact, of course, somehow, everybody is trying to clone in their own mind a completely consistent set of perfect definitions to work with. Logicians have been trying to do that for the last century. They've been trying to form one completely consistent logic. And then computer scientists are trying to [create] ontologies--descriptions of knowledge in which there was a clean, fit, perfect definition of what coffee is. — Doc Searls
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