Burningbird

Now this is damn clever: using Google searches to trend flu outbreaks. Google is aggregating flu-related searches into trending where flu outbreaks might be occurring, or about to occur.

So far, knock on wood, the flu trend graph shows low activity for Missouri.

You don't have to wait for Drupal 7 to RDFaificate your Drupal site. I spent yesterday tweaking my space, and if you access the site now with a tool, such as the Semantic Radar Firefox add-on, you'll see all sorts of semantic goodness. I used a combination of plug-ins and theme modifications to make my changes, and will probably add to the overall effect over time.

Read through for the gory details...

Virginia DeBolt has posted another in her series on Women in Technology, this one about Maria Webster from .51. It's a terrific interview, and appreciations to Virginia in her effort to promote more awareness of women in tech.

Maria is an Über geek, with interests that cross the lines from computers to electrical engineering, ham radio, to physics, and all points between. And Tron, which reminded that I hadn't seen this movie in years.

High quality video from World War II, including several minutes of air combat at the end of the video.

The footage was discovered two years ago by the photographer's grandsons. They subsequently donated the footage to the Library of Congress, which has the equipment to safely reproduce the fragile film.

Don't you love it when people take bits and pieces of different words, creating a new word that manages, somehow, to be understandable? A word like RDFaification?

But the RDFa beautification of Drupal is upon us, helped along by writings such as A Roadmap for RDFa in Drupal 7, based, in part, on this previous post and discussion, kicked off by Drupal's Dries Buytaert.

Years ago, we used to talk about the "ugly" serialization of RDF (RDF/XML at the time) and how the serialization technique really didn't matter, because one day, the metadata annotation of a site would be handled automatically via whatever content management tool people used.

Future, meet Drupal.