Will the Semantic Web have a gender?

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This blog depends heavily on cloud applications like Zemanta, feedly and ping.fm. I know that my audience exists of 70% males. I was not aware up to now that the technology might have a gender bias.

Found at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/redux_will_the_semantic_web_have_a_gender.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 26, 2009 8:00 AM

As machines learn to understand what the web means, what perspective will they understand it from? Who is teaching them? “Objective” descriptions of the world and the relationships in it can cause real problems, particularly for people with little power in those relationships. How will the emerging Semantic Web understand relationships and what will that mean for us as human users?

To be continued at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/redux_will_the_semantic_web_have_a_gender.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

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