Leonard Lin has posted a gem of a link to an archived usenet discussion about the semantic web on comp.ai. This informative and thorny conversation was unleashed by a simple question posed by Jorn Barger:

Can someone explain to me why this Google Groups search -- http://groups.google.com/groups?scoring=d&q=group:comp.ai+semantic.web -- shows almost no discussion of the Semantic Web project on comp.ai, ever? Why isn't it even mentioned in the 'FAQ'? What does the academic-AI community think of it, in terms of practicality or theoretical interest?

Aren't businesses spending tons of money implementing XML data-standards, and don't they hire AI-grads for expertise on this? Or haven't AI grad-programs been adequately training students in these semantic skills? Source