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RDF

RDF Poetry Finder: The beginnings of a beautiful friendship

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I enjoy posting photographs to the weblog, and usually accompany them with a story or a short and appropriate note. A couple of months ago I started something new — posting photos accompanied by poems that complemented the ‘story’ I wanted to tell with the photo. Explaining my new approach, I wrote: […]

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Weather

Deadly, Beautiful

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The light and sound show hit with a fury yesterday, but not without exacting payment on its way. Several people were killed by tornadoes in Kansas and Missouri and it looks like the town of Pierce City was pretty much leveled. The storms had lost a lot of their energy by the time they hit us, […]

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Just Shelley

You are how you write

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am in the midst of semantics, poetry, and RDF but I did want to take a moment to add my own comment on a new linguistic nosh currently being nibbled in the neighborhood. The nosh in question is a new book by William Hannas titled “The Writing on the […]

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Travel

Thoughts of a traveler

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Another storm watch on, and this one left tornados in its wake in Kansas. Another excellent light and sound show tonight. I thought I would ramble a bit online while I wait for it. I’ve been called into jury duty the first week in June. Yup, Burningbird on a jury. […]

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RDF

RDF Poetry Finder: Pieces of the Puzzle

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. First in a multi-part series focusing on RDF (Resource Description Framework) and poetry and demonstrating two-way integration between art and technology. No prior experience with either RDF or poetry is required. Recently, Simon St. Laurent wrote a weblog essay titled The (data) medium is the message, in which he discusses the […]