The KROW Stephen Hall Assoc. Next year natural language processing will be a higher priority. I like the speed of access to information.
Spammers do serious harm to the web by falsely indexing their sites in irrelevant categories.
They destroy the main purpose of the web and create a high ratio between amount of work and effectiveness of promotion, which should not be necessary. I think that there will be a groundswell of support for radical anti-spam tactics in the coming years. I support the activities of the Black Guard, and hope that similar efforts will teach the spammers a lesson they will not be able to forget. The combination of XML and Java seems ideal for the presentation of information. And Unicode, which still needs more support.