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 […]
Day: July 30, 2003
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Sweet tunes and Weblogging runes
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. […]
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What you will and won’t find here
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 […]
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The Semantics of Starlings
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 […]
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And now, more FOAF
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m not going to turn this into a mirror for all things FOAF, but I did want to point out an excellent article by Dan Brickley about pages about people. I’m glad that Dan made the ‘not wanting to go there’ point when it comes to writing testimonials, or even implying trust, […]