Nothing much has changed. Most of the talk about the semantic web is complete hot air. It isn't as if this stuff is counterintuitive or non-obvious -- it's just

Nothing much has changed. Most of the talk about the semantic web is complete hot air. It isn't as if this stuff is counterintuitive or non-obvious -- it's just that no-one wants to go through the work of teaching machines to understand language/text without a way to profit from it.