Ah, the word spreads. Excellent:
In the Semantic Web realm, dereferencable URIs offer the critical fabric that drive the giant global graph of interconnected data popularly referred to as Linked Data; a term also coined by Tim Berners-Lee in his Linked Data Design Note[1] and furthered by other articles such as “Cool URIs for the Semantic Web” by Sauermann and Cygniak[2].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dereferenceable_Uniform_Resource_Identifier
So, I hope the URI crisis is over now, lets see how it turns out in the next years.
The Polish Wikipedia (entry on URI) referred to the Cool URIs article already back in March 2007
http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uniform_Resource_Identifier&oldid=6901907