Finally, semantic links for the girl i'm crushing on. what took so long?

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RelExtensions

by clutchski • 17 years ago

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vicaya• 17 years ago

Had a little cognitive dissonance when I noticed that the status is "accepted" for that attribute value.

steveklabnik• 17 years ago

Maybe for a site like okcupid...

Okay, that's still a stretch.

tyrmored• 17 years ago

Where's "arch-nemesis"?

anonjon• 17 years ago

yeah and 'underling' or 'sidekick'?

Can we make different semantic maps to match up with different (possibly distorted) perceptions of reality?

If 'to be is to be perceived', it seems that a single semantic web will be flawed as it canonicalizes something that is not an objective reality.

Need multiple immutable semantic webs in layers with shared structure, where you can access the shared structure.

randallsquared• 17 years ago

yeah and 'underling'

I think you mean 'minion'.

sethg4• 17 years ago

Not to mention "pointy-haired ex-boss".

krakensden• 17 years ago

Don't you mean "fearless leader"?

mfukar• 17 years ago

OK, there's no 'hate', 'kill', 'restraining order'. Is Web 2.0 becoming too goody-good for its own good?

TrevorJ3• 17 years ago

Orwell? The list is far from complete, I doubt those would be the first words people would think to add, I'm sure word with negative connotations will be added in the future.

chasingsparks• 17 years ago

Double-plus good comment, TrevorJ.

sethg4• 17 years ago

A "restraining order" semantic relationship (preferably, a three-part relationship: X has taken out a restraining order against Y, as officially documented by Z) would actually be useful, unlike this "date" and "crush" silliness.

Likewise "health-care proxy", "attorney", "executor of will".

three14• 17 years ago

Could someone who has time to kill to go through the "Microformats Process" please add the "parody" keyword? This would be a great help for the next time xkcd wants to demonstrate the beauty of HTML5.

shrikant• 17 years ago

WordPress already has support for this, when you're editing your Blogroll links (out of the box). Awesome.

WalterGR• 17 years ago

Very interesting.

Keyword = "crush" = brief description = "this person considers the referenced person to be a crush (i.e. has a crush on the referenced person)"

Keyword = "date" = brief description = "this person considers the referenced person to be a date (i.e. is dating the referenced person)"

I'd argue that considering a person to be "a date" does not imply that one is dating that person.

Doctorow: "In meta-utopia, the lab-coated guardians of epistemology sit down and rationally map out a hierarchy of ideas..." http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm

ComputerGuru• 17 years ago

I don't get it.. Maybe I'm just being a little slow, but how does the fact that I consider I went out on a date with X not mean that I'm dating X?

TrevorJ3• 17 years ago

In the logical sense it does, however typically the term "dating" connotes a commitment to the relationship that is a a bit deeper than simply going on a single date. I think it's the modern equivalent of "going steady".

NikkiA• 17 years ago

Example: I offer to meet you at a computer store to help you pick out a good monitor. You, having a crush on me, consider this a 'date', I, not having any romantic feelings for you whatsoever, consider it an act of friendship.

And yes, there are people that think such things constitute a 'date', they usually turn out to be a scary creepy stalker types once you tell them you're not interested.

moron4hire• 17 years ago

I generally don't consider it as "we're dating" until at least the 3rd or 4th date. The first few dates are tryouts for "dating".

axod• 17 years ago

"Crushing on"? Never heard that expression before. "Have a crush on" is more usual.

sethg4• 17 years ago

Clay Shirky had some acrid comments on this "semantic links to humans" idea five years ago:

http://many.corante.com/archives/2004/08/17/xfn_relationship...

One comment to that post remarked: "It seems to me that it's not just a solution looking for a problem; it's a problem looking for a problem."

Finally, semantic links for the girl i'm crushing on. what took so long?

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