I'm at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City for the LinkedData Planet Conference & Expo, which runs through Wednesday. It's a busy show and I'm trying to cover as much of the two tracks as possible. My self-cloning attempts having failed, I'm having to pick my shots.

Rather than trying to craft a coherent narrative -- which is being handled by the ultra-coherent Jenny Zaino over at Semantic Web, and which would be a departure for this blog anyway -- I've decided to offer you interesting quotes from some of the speakers and participants at the show.
But first, a complaint: Every table in the Grand Ballroom is supplied with two large bottles (28 oz. each) of Saratoga Natural Drinking Water. A fine vintage, no doubt, but I paid $8.95 for one bottle last night from the hotel's room service! (Yes, I needed it; I went running in Central Park and was extremely dehydrated, plus I really don't like the hotel tap water. Not to mention I can expense it.) Welcome to New York.

The opening keynote this morning was by Kingsley Idehen, who is president and CEO of OpenLink Software Inc. Kingsley's bio says he is "one of the very few individuals who have actively participated in standards compliant technology innovation across several eras ranging from early Data Access Middleware and Database Virtualization, to XML-based Web Services and Web 2.0, and now to the Semantic Web."

Here are some comments from Kingsley's keynote on "Creating, Deploying and Exploiting Linked Data":

On the Semantic Web:

"It will provide a richer linking mechanism for the web that takes us from hypertext links (documents to documents) to hyperdata links (across things that documents are about)."

With the Semantic Web, "Context, and not content, becomes king."

"Meshing, or natural data linking, will replace mashing, or brute-force data linking."

On web browsers:

Web browsers traditionally have been seen as tools for browsing the web. But now users are "no longer browsing the web, you're viewing data. So the web browser is now a data viewer."

Obviously this is a tremendous distillation of a 40-minute keynote. Kingsley's presentation is posted online; when I get the URL, I'll post it here.

Update: I found Kingsley's keynote! That's right. Who's your linked data daddy?