March 26, 2007

So THAT’S why Andrew Orlowski still has a job (Part 2)

Andrew Orlowski is an over-the-top jerk, and a pretty sloppy reporter and analyst to boot. But he occasionally makes a good point even so. In the most recent instance, he confronted Tim Berners-Lee. As the article makes clear, Berners-Lee reacted badly to Orlowski, reflecting an attitude that is probably shared by 99% of the people who encounter the guy, and in the future will probably be adopted by sentient computers as well. Even so, Orlowski’s underlying point is valid: If the Semantic Web is going to be any more spam-free than the current Web, nobody has adequately explained why.

Categories: Ontologies, Spam and antispam 
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2 Responses to “So THAT’S why Andrew Orlowski still has a job (Part 2)”

  1. Seth Grimes on March 31st, 2007 8:00 am

    Umm, Curt. The Register is a business. Someone pays the bills — advertisers, sponsors, a deep-pockets publisher: who knows? Andrew Orlowski still has a job because people like you read his stuff and in the course of reading his stuff, you view the ads or the sponsor materials, you gratify the publishers, whatever.

  2. Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Orlowski is back to his old tricks on April 1st, 2007 8:53 am

    […] Andrew Orlowski thinks he’s figured out the Apple/Google/Oracle partnership. But he has it all wrong. • • • […]

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