why the Semantic Web will never work

Surfing Digg led me to 9 Ways to Misunderstand Web Standards which led me to the awesome 2001 article Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia by Cory Doctorow.

He makes great points about the futility of the Semantic Web dream, including:

1. People lie
2. People are lazy

Previously:
January 17, 2006  in which I learn the HTML acronym tag