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title: Information Management, version 2
categories:
- work
content-tags:
- ux
- design
- semantic
- web
- data
- indieweb
---

Great quote from [Shelley Powers][1]: "Technology driven for the sake of technology and not the people using the technology will never been anything more than a minor nuisance at best, and a disliked, and unused or incorrectly used technology at worst."

   [1]: http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/001544.htm

A colleague recently asked me what all the "Semantic Web" fuss was about.  I offered that it was a second attempt at marking up human knowledge in a way that makes it easier for the machines to read.  Editorializing (as always), I offered that it's unclear what will motivate people to add additional markup to their web content to make life easier for [Googlebot][2].  The explosive growth of the [first
web][3] was fueled by desire to disseminate information to a human audience.  What's going to drive the [second one][4]?

   [2]: http://www.google.com/bot.html
   [3]: http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
   [4]: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
