On Real Semantic Web and Language

I am in China :-) and I am really happy to be back here. At the moment I am in Hangzhou which is where I used to live.

The other day I posted about language and how natural language systems would be gould for Semantic Web and then today I cam upon a Google tech talk that details the matter quite well.



Have a look if you have some spair time. I am about 20 minuts in so far and though it is not completely thrilling the speaker has made some interesting points.

Sorry about spelling I am using an internet cafe in which pages are not loading perfectly and spell checkers are not working.

China is so much fun.

User Centred Dogma vs. Design that is Good

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So this is a really lovely talk by some guy. I completely recommend everyone in the world watches it. It is about an hour and fifteen minutes long but I think it is worth it.

Just in case you were wondering, it is about how user centred design is not as effectual as it is claimed to be and is often used to justify useless endeavours. The speaker (who is actually Jared Spool) claims that simple good design with a strong interaction with people actually using the outcomes is a better model.

I agree. But hey I love doing dissemination maps so I am not going to drop trying to work out how people think yet. Also, I think his model is a good proposition but I think it could be made better by tailoring methods for this kind of work; "Release Early, Release Often" as Google often says.