Wednesday, April 19, 2006

my phrase 'robot wisdom'was always meant to implyscience-logic ('robot')tempered by art-intuition ('wisdom')asserting that the socialsciencesfailbecause they fail to meetnovelists' standardsof realismand nowthe first ontologiesfor the semantic webfail toobecause they lackpoetrywhich is intuition's metricfor psychological realismbut here's an antidoteor at least a tryat meeting them halfway:re-format yourontologies, for classifyingphotosmusicnewsto show them graphicallyiconicallyheraldicallyas human-readable 'barcodes'that put first things firsthuman priorities beforemachine prioritiesfor music, foregroundingthe genrethe beatthe stress/soothingnessfor pixthe prettinessthe subjectthe degree of artifice(eg photoshop)for news storiesthe placethe category(disaster, biz, bizarre)the interestingnessheraldic representationsputting 1st things 1stbut leaving room for tweaksand judgingfirst and lastby their aptnessfor the eye

Morning quickie: Heraldic barcodes and the semantic web (RWx)

the lark, herald of the morn. ..what announces. distinction, sign.

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note (mine) on cut-past layout retention:
where "carriage return"[^M], no space.
so that: where linebreak was, runtogether will be.
opposite no contrary no reverse no what's the word? will do: antonymial-
to-bring-together is the _?_ of to-separate
but here it marks. to attend: this movement: word / to / word / OR wordtoword
..what announces. distinction, sign. either way.
nonetheless antonymedness notwithstanding.

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