Re: [foaf-protocols] How to make an idea popular

2011-09-19 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 9/18/11 9:49 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote: Kingsley, An idea being popular doesn't mean that it is feasible or even desirable. Fascism for example. Quite popular a number of times in history. Hope you are at the start of a great week! Patrick Patrick, I did a reply and cc. on a post by

Re: [foaf-protocols] How to make an idea popular

2011-09-19 Thread Adam Saltiel
I didn't follow the links yet. But I'm sure Kingsley means popular such as to gain traction and wide spread use. This does seem inevitable. It is just that it has been a bit slow. Am I right that algorithmic based social networks intervened in what might have been a more straight forward

Re: [foaf-protocols] How to make an idea popular

2011-09-19 Thread Patrick Durusau
Adam, On 9/19/2011 9:29 AM, Adam Saltiel wrote: I didn't follow the links yet. But I'm sure Kingsley means popular such as to gain traction and wide spread use. This does seem inevitable. It is just that it has been a bit slow. Why inevitable? People make their webpages available b/c the

Re: [foaf-protocols] How to make an idea popular

2011-09-19 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 9/19/11 10:18 AM, Patrick Durusau wrote: Why inevitable? People make their webpages available b/c the benefit of being heard by a wider audience is worth the cost of admission. Because everyone will soon realize that they can *map* structured data (in a variety of shapes and forms) to a

Re: [foaf-protocols] How to make an idea popular

2011-09-19 Thread Adam Saltiel
Inevitable that usage will grow substantially. Who and how is far from clear. I will not rehearse scenarios. An interesting metric would be the ratio kb of data that could be reasoned over by a reasoner that takes heterogeneous data input (to tackle the various format issue) against HTML/XML.

Re: [foaf-protocols] How to make an idea popular

2011-09-19 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 9/19/11 3:12 PM, Adam Saltiel wrote: Inevitable that usage will grow substantially. Who and how is far from clear. I will not rehearse scenarios. An interesting metric would be the ratio kb of data that could be reasoned over by a reasoner that takes heterogeneous data input (to tackle the

Re: [foaf-protocols] How to make an idea popular

2011-09-18 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 9/18/11 8:35 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html Enjoy! :) ___ foaf-protocols mailing list foaf-protoc...@lists.foaf-project.org

Re: [foaf-protocols] How to make an idea popular

2011-09-18 Thread Patrick Durusau
Kingsley, An idea being popular doesn't mean that it is feasible or even desirable. Fascism for example. Quite popular a number of times in history. Hope you are at the start of a great week! Patrick On 09/18/2011 03:19 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 9/18/11 8:35 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: