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Kingsley Idehen, my boss, Talked with Talis earlier this month. I’ve just listened to it.

He specifically talked about the business benefits of Linked Data and the Semantic Web.

It is available: “Talking with Talis: Kingsley Idehen talks about OpenLink Software, Linked Data and the Semantic Web“.

This talk is very well worth a listen because it is very much from a business point of view. He uses very business-orientated use cases to build up the big picture of Linked Data. It is not overly technical, but the average technologist should also find the episode interesting too.

You’ll notice that Kingsley and I give descriptions in very similar ways. We both describe things in one particular way, and then describe in at least one other different way. This is incredibly important for being a good teacher and a good Technology Evangelist. The reason for doing this is because different people do different things, and different people do those things in different ways.

People have different ways of understanding different things, hence why religion/faith is so varied and hence why some people prefer an open source system and why others prefer a proprietory system. There is no way of getting away from these differences, however, it is good to build bridges between them. Therefore, a good teacher or technology evangelist will describe things in different ways, which builds bridges in between different domains of knowledge and understanding.

I’ve gone slightly off on a tangent a little, mainly because I feel very strongly about this “building bridges” model. Maybe it is a case for another blog post at some time. So, anyway, I highly recommend listening to the Talking with Talis episode with Kingsley…. very much well worth it!!!