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Web

Putting Hotlinks on Ice

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Hotlinks — what a perfect word for the practice of directly linking to a photograph or other high bandwidth item on someone else’s server. Hot with its implication of hot goods and thieves passing in the cybernight. The proper term is “direct linking”, and while more technically accurate, the latter […]

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RDF

Tax? Or Precision?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I read the comments about “RDF tax” and how we must “prove” RDF’s worth, yet when I look at so many plain XML feeds, all I can see is the improvement that could be added because of the precision of using RDF/XML. Not all XML feeds, but any that are […]