Mark Butler {HP Labs : People Pages : Dr Mark H Butler) is a researcher at HP Labs working with Simile and Dspace at MIT. He has some interesting pieces about the semantic web which query the utility of RDF. See for example Is the semantic web hype? [pdf].
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