The blog post does not address why the Semantic Web failed: 1. Trust: How should one know that any data available marked up according to Sematic Web principles

The blog post does not address why the Semantic Web failed: 1. Trust: How should one know that any data available marked up according to Sematic Web principles can be trusted? This is an even more pressing question when the data is free. Sir Berners-Lee (AKA "TimBL") designed the Semantic Web in a way that makes "trust" a component, when in truth it is an emergent relation between a well-designed system and its users (my own definition). 2. Lack of Incentives: There is no way to get paid for uploading content that is financially very valuable. I know many financial companies that would like to offer their data in a "Semantic Web" form, but they cannot, because they would not get compensated, and their existence depends on selling that data; some even use Semantic Web standards for internal-only sharing. 3. A lot of SW stuff is either boilerplate or re-discovered formal logic from the 1970s. I read lots of papers that propose some "ontology" but no application that needs it.