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Just Shelley

Bright Copper Pennies

Walking down Main, as we would call our barely 5 block long main street that ran through the center of town, I tended to walk with my head down, gaze focused on the ground. This wasn’t because I was a shy child, or a quiet child, or I was being sulky or disrespectful. No, I […]

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Photography

B & W or color

Some photographers focus on black & white photography, others color, but many are like me and we’ll use both depending on the circumstances. For myself, I’ve seen a photo in color that’s uninteresting until you desaturate it, reducing it to greys, blacks, and whites, and then it takes on life and interest. Conversely, other photos […]

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RDF

Mixing Vanilla XML with RDF/XML

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. What would it be like to add the ability to create RDF/XML “sub-trees” within a plain vanilla XML document? It would be like the following: xoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxox xoxoxoxo xxoxoxooxoxxo foaf:knows xoxoxoxox xox xoxoxoxox oxoxoxoxox xxoxoxoxoxoxxo rss:item xoxoxoxoxoxox xoxoxoxo xxoxoxoxox xoxo xxxxoxo xxox x foaf:lastname xoxoxoxo xoxoxoxoxox oxxx oxoxox oxoxoxox xoxoxox postcon:reason […]

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RDF

You have your peanut butter in my chocolate!

Recovered from the Wayback machine. Jon Udell has been exploring the concept of mixing, in his words, RDF-isms with RSS 2.0, which is a non-RDF, single use XML vocabulary. First, important note – when RDF people talk about RSS, they usually mean RSS 1.0, which is an RDF-enabled vocabulary. Second important note – RDF puts certain constraints and requirements on an […]

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Weblogging

Weblog Links: Part 1—The Impermanence of Permalinks

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Webloggers may vary in their support of technologies such as comments and trackbacks and RSS, but two things most agree on: weblogs support archives for older posts, and each post is accessible individually with a URL called a permalink. In fact, it is these two items that give all webloggers […]