Bill Kearney

Interesting. You pulled "I love RDF! I hate RDF!" from me expressing legitimate concerns about the social implications of FOAF, and social networks?

Bill, if people don't raise concerns, technology never becomes tempered or refined. It just flaps along, loose, untested, and barely usable.

Sort of like another XML vocabulary where concerns are discouraged by the creator.

No, I didn't pull the quote from you. It's one thing to raise concerns. It's another to flip-flop back and forth. The whipsawing effect just tires everyone out. As opposed to other vocabulary effort (annoying in it's own right), the wishy-washy shifts from you are probably just as bad, if not worse.

Bill, I shouldn't get into this conversation with you, because it's not a win/win for either of us -- I had my say, you had yours. But I look at what I wrote, and what you said, and it doesn't even click. Which means, there's no point in trying to have conversation, and this is something I'm having to learn.

Again with the fatalistic "why bother" tone. You've a habit of waxing and waning on the enthusiasm scale. First you love it! Then you hate it! Then everyone's getting it wrong! Then it's all rosy again!

That gets rather tiresome and is the point of why I posted. We've spoken about this before and if you'd prefer a voice conversation I'd certainly welcome it again.