Comments on: The Irony of Intelligently Lazy http://labnotes.org/2006/07/19/the-irony-of-intelligently-lazy/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:36:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Assaf http://labnotes.org/2006/07/19/the-irony-of-intelligently-lazy/comment-page-1/#comment-7075 Assaf Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:48:17 +0000 http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/07/19/the-irony-of-intelligently-lazy/#comment-7075 Wikipedia is a good example. It's a smart hub which does all the hard stuff -- search, history, access control, load balancing, etc. So contributors can be intelligently lazy and just write stuff they know about. You don't need to know HTML, upload via FTP, give other people FTP access to edit the content. In fact, you don't even need to register, or decide which URL to use. The search engine is simple full text lookup. There are no barrier semantics: contributors don't have to annotate in a complex information model so it can be searched with meaning. It all just text and links. It got to be big because is started by asking people to do very small things. Now try to imagine an RDF version of Wikipedia full of semantic information that's all neatly classified into well chosen URL namespaces, connected through semantic arcs. You could run pretty sophisticated searches on it and mine a lot of data. But would it ever get off the ground? Wikipedia is a good example.

It’s a smart hub which does all the hard stuff — search, history, access control, load balancing, etc.

So contributors can be intelligently lazy and just write stuff they know about.

You don’t need to know HTML, upload via FTP, give other people FTP access to edit the content. In fact, you don’t even need to register, or decide which URL to use.

The search engine is simple full text lookup. There are no barrier semantics: contributors don’t have to annotate in a complex information model so it can be searched with meaning. It all just text and links.

It got to be big because is started by asking people to do very small things.

Now try to imagine an RDF version of Wikipedia full of semantic information that’s all neatly classified into well chosen URL namespaces, connected through semantic arcs. You could run pretty sophisticated searches on it and mine a lot of data.

But would it ever get off the ground?

]]> By: Gabe http://labnotes.org/2006/07/19/the-irony-of-intelligently-lazy/comment-page-1/#comment-7061 Gabe Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:45:16 +0000 http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/07/19/the-irony-of-intelligently-lazy/#comment-7061 Good points. But doesn't this fantastic and simple search engine utlize a certain well-paved road? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&fulltext=Search Of course, that well paved road developed in fits and starts, kinda like the transcontinental railroad. But it's paved, painstakingly so. Good points. But doesn’t this fantastic and simple search engine utlize a certain well-paved road?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&fulltext=Search

Of course, that well paved road developed in fits and starts, kinda like the transcontinental railroad. But it’s paved, painstakingly so.

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