The Lord of the Webs

New fresh article on WashingtonPost about TimBL his view of the Semantic Web. The article also tries to outline the differences between WebServices and the SW. IBM seems not believing much in it and about the mental leap involved. Bob Suter, IBM's director of Web services clearly says that "The fundamental problem is people are going to be lazy about adding all this extra information to their Web pages".
This reminds me about the Metacrap article about users' laziness to fill up more forms, more fields i.e. make the additional step - I believe instead that the bigger challenge of the SW is to actually write clever bots, crawlers, scraper and web mining tools which will actually infer or derive metadata and relationships automatically, without human intervention. See also previous post about using TrackBack/PingBack techniques to infer links.