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Semantics

Cheap eats at the Semantic Web cafe

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s a rare event when several seemingly disparate items of interest all come together to form a compelling, coalescent whole. This event happened for me the past few weeks; an experience formed of discussions about digital identity and laws of same, LID, Technorati Tags, new and old syndication formats, Google’s […]

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Weblogging

TBD Tags et al

I’ve been wanting to write something on Technorati Tags, the conference on journalism, blogging, and credibility, as well as a follow-up on LID, and even a little on Wordform (Eh? What’s that?), but all of this deserves a thoughtful discussion, carefully written. Frankly, I’m not in the mood for either thoughtful or careful, so I […]

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Just Shelley

Swivel stick

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Loren, who has been sharing tales of courage and horror from his fearsome youth, recounted one incident with a slippery log and a fall into a swift stream. Ever since, he’s hiked out of his way to avoid having to use logs to cross streams. (He and I also shared a five […]

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Climate Change

Clean coal

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After reading about the trapped coal miners in West Virginia, I think we’re ready for another playing of GE’s Ecomagination take on coal mining. And what a timely reminder of Bob Dylan and It’s alright Ma (I’m only Bleeding): Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Made everything from toy guns […]

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RDF Technology Weblogging

A credible coder

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been silent in this weblog, primarily because I’ve been working on a couple of other projects. I had talked with a good, and wise, friend of mine about this effort and he made a point that I felt was valid: that I should implement those applications or functionalities I’ve […]