An article about the semantic web was posted on Guardian Unlimited today. Spread the word, and join it up examines the top-down vs. bottom-up "debate", mentioning BBC Backstage toward the end.

Not enough useful RDF data has been left online, he [TBL] explained: "The whole value-add of the web is serendipitous re-use: when you put it out there for one person, and it gets used by who-knows-who. We want to put data out there for one purpose, then find it gets linked into all kinds of data. And that's been not happening, because we forgot 'serve useful stuff', not to mention 'make useful links'."

Source: Guardian Unlimited