I still like my analogy to the elephant and the blind men, in chapter 1. People still see RDF, and more generally, the Semantic Web (or my preferred, the lowercase semantic web), from different viewpoints, and with different expectations. That hasn’t changed, and by the nature of the beast, never will. Good. Keeps life interesting. […]
Year: 2005
If you access my front page you’ll see that I’ve made a temporary modification to include random photos. This doesn’t signal a redesign as much as a need to add a little bright color to my page. I was inspired to this move, as I sit inside and watch yet another thunderstorm roll past. These […]
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I, URL
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My first exposure to the concept of a ‘federated identity’, or a digital identity or ID if you will, was when I had to obtain one of the first Microsoft Passport identities in order to access the material I needed to finish my book, Developing ASP Components. I was pleased […]
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Banging heads for fun and profit
I managed to get LID installed, and you can see it in operation here. I’m in the middle of another one of my multi-page essays on digital ID generally and LID specifically, and hopefully will be finished tonight, or tomorrow. I bet you’re sitting there just holding your breath, excited down to your privates at the thought of […]
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Self-documenting technology
Danny Ayers points to a Jon Udell article about dynamic documentation managed by the folks who use a product, rather than relying on stuffy old material provided by the organization making the software. In it, Jon writes: Collectively, we users know a lot more about products than vendors do. We eventually stumble across every undocumented feature or quirk. […]