The Rob Warnock Lisp Usenet Archive by Zach Beane.
From the post:
I've been reading and enjoying comp.lang.lisp for over 10 years. I find it important to ignore the noise and seek out material from authors that clearly have something interesting and informative to say.
Rob Warnock has posted neat stuff for many years, both in comp.lang.lisp and comp.lang.scheme. After creating the Erik Naggum archive, Rob was next on my list of authors to archive. It took me a few years, but here it is: the Rob Warnock Lisp Usenet archive. It has 3,265 articles from comp.lang.lisp and comp.lang.scheme from 1995 to 2009, indexed and searchable. I hope it helps you find as many useful articles as I have over the years.
You can imagine my heartbreak when the Eric Naggum archive turned out to be for comp.lang.lisp. 😉
I think Zach’s point, it is “important to ignore the noise and seek out material from authors that clearly have something interesting and informative to say,” is a clue to the difficulty selling topic maps.
Who thinks that is important?
If I am being paid by the hour to sort through search engine results, what is my motivation to do it faster/better?
If I am managing hourly workers, who are doing the sorting of search engine results, won’t doing it faster reduce the payroll I manage?
If my department has the manager with hourly workers and the facilities to house them, what is my motivation for faster/better?
If my company/government agency has the department with the manager with hourly workers and facilities under contract, what is my motivation for faster/better?
If that helps identify who has no motivation for topic maps, who should be interested in topic maps?
I first saw this at Christophe Lalanne’s A bag of tweets / February 2013.