[whatwg] Ghosts from the past and the semantic Web

Ben Adida ben at adida.net
Thu Aug 28 12:52:46 PDT 2008


Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
> There is a difference between the general possibility of making nonsense
> statements and an invitation to make them.  In my opinion, recommending
> metadata about content within itself is such an invitation.

Where do you see an invitation that invites more circularity than just
normal document writing?

If I say "by Ben Adida" in an article byline, there's circularity. Is
that harmful?

Is RDFa encouraging more circularity? I don't see it.

-Ben



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