I was so caught up in the Pie/Echo/Atom stuff yesterday that I missed Jon Udell’s discussion about my book. He wrote: To get a better picture of how the CVM works, I read Shelley Powers’ very well-written new book, Practical RDF. I read it online, actually. Very cool to be able to do that. (Tank, I […]
Month: August 2003
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Breaky Parts
My roommate flies in tonight and I pick him and the friend that traveled with him up at the St. Louis airport. However, he called to say the flight from Portland to Chicago was going to be late, and I’ll need to use the online airline system to track the flight, see if he makes […]
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New IsaViz version out
One of the tools/utilities I covered in the book was Emmanuel Pietriga’s IsaViz, a nifty graphical tool for working with RDF models. Emmanuel just sent me an email to let me know that a whole new version is out. This new version supports the latest last call working drafts for the RDF specification and also uses GSS […]
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PIE/Echo/Atom-seeing the light?
Thanks to some tweaks suggested by Aaron Swartz, the Pie/Echo/Atom folks are exploring the possibility of formating the syndication format in RDF/XML. As I’ve said in comments – this is a very good thing. It unifies RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 beautifully and justifies having yet another syndication effort. Discussion on this continues at the syndication feed email list. […]
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Inexplicables
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Odd things happening lately. My roommate is out of town at his high school reunion, which is a bit inexplicable but that’s not the focus of this tale. What is, is the fire detector in the hall between our two bedrooms. Every night it’s been emitting these odd little sounds […]