BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Phil Wolff’s bringing up David Weinberger’s old idea of a Blogging holiday – everyone take a week off in August. This is in response to some webloggers expressing what sounds like burn out. This reminds me of when I worked for the tie factory in Seattle, spending all day long with big industrial irons […]
Originally published at O’Reilly, and recovered from the Wayback Machine. Not long ago, Marc Canter, one of the early founders of Macromedia, talked about RDF and the Semantic Web in his weblog. Specifically, he wrote: “I’ve been spending more and more time trying to grok the RDF folks. I have to say I like what I […]
Being off-weblog this weekend, I missed the Blogathon, and in particular, the joint effort on the part of Scott Andrew LePera and Shannon Campbell to co-write a song in 24 hours. All online. They made their goal, plus one: two songs, Southdown and Nothing New. (Mirrored on Burningbird Net) Their effort was extraordinary. The music is wonderous. How they did this is amazing. […]
If you come here expecting to hear only good about RDF or any of it’s vocabularies and associated technologies, then you will be disappointed. The new specifications for RDF, the model and its serialization syntax, are barely out of the gate, and if you think that now we should be nothing but complimentary about it […]
This weekend I played a bit more with the attachment that allows me to take photos of slides with my digital camera. The ones shown here I took years ago when I lived in Portland, Oregon. The subject is a flock of European Starlings at sunset, just after a storm. Every year our apartment complex in Portland […]