BurningbirdDavid Weinberger, that Pygmalian of weblogging, points to an in-depth investigative report that follows on the now famous Incredible JoBlo conference held at Harvard last week. In the report, the hard hitting news hounds at Better Bad News leave no stone unturned in their relentless search for the truth. Do webloggers have an obligation to report who does or […]
I am writing a follow-up post to Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Café, covering taxonomies as compared to folksonomies, when in my researched I stumbled on to the DoD Taxonomy Gallery. Unfortunately, registration requires sponsorhip by someone with a .gov or .mil email address. I assume the data isn’t restricted; I imagine registration is to keep […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I agree with Dave Roger’s about the character of Starbuck on SciFi’s new Battlestar Galactica. I’m still somewhat reserved on the show, though it is a cut above many such on nowadays. But I have no reservations in how women are presented in this show, and I’m a pretty picky science fiction […]
Yesterday was a gray day with mixed rain and snow and slushy grounds and the threat of ice on the road. However, I’ve made a pact with myself to get out and walk everyday, regardless of the weather–around the neighborhood if I absolutely must, though I hate walking through city streets, and on cement. Walking […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This new item has hit Slashdot: Deriving Semantic Meaning from Google Results. Seems a couple of scientists have devised a method where they take page results for pairing of words and from these determine which pairing is more semantically meaningful. They call this the Normalized Google Distance or NGD for short. Their […]