About 4 or 5 months ago I wrote a blog post titled The Media is The Meaning … We Consume and Create as I was thinking about the two-wayness, the “writing ourselves into existence” (JOHO) aspects of blogging and the Web.
Nova Spivack’s essay is providing a viewpoint on this same notion, but at a more granular level.
He’s also describing practical ways that this will happen and become useful, through the use of links and agents and platform that allow mixing, combining and re-mixing Knowledge Objects to create customized knowledge services and meaning-making.
To avoid these problems we need to begin to store metadata about information outside of the information itself in the form “Knowledge Objects.” Knowledge Objects are a new medium that will have to evolve as the Semantic Web develops. They provide a way to store, share, connect and access, collections of metadata about resources outside of the resources themselves. At my company, Radar Networks, we have spent the last four years developing a platform for working with semantic Knowledge Objects.
We believe this is ultimately the most practical approach to deploying real-world Semantic Web applications and services.
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