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Weblogging

Truth hurts

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are a lot of people upset at a Forbes Magazine cover story on weblogs (free and easy registration required). Of course, it seeks to generate heat by the lead-in, which is inflammatory to say the least: Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing […]

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RDF Technology

The Wordform/WordPress metaform

Time to start releasing some code. The Metaform RDF extension and plugins are finally really for beta use. The Metaform Extension creates a new page in your WordPress weblog that provides a home for all metadata extensions. You’ll also need to add a few lines to your wp-configure.php file and a couple of your templates. The install.txt […]

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Diversity Writing

The Testosterone Meme

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After checking out the tech.memeorandum.com web site for a few weeks now I’ve made several observations: First, most of the stories covered are about business, rather than technology. The companies in focus may be technical, but the stories are about commerce. Second, if you’re a woman writing about technology, don’t expect to […]

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Travel

Babble Meadow

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My train leaves in about 8 hours and I’m not going to try to nap before taking it. Instead, I’m going to write, about this and that, until I have to close my computer and pack it. My mother did order DSL through her phone company for me to use […]

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Semantics

The Bottoms Up RDF Tutorial

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I wrote the first chapter of the book, Practical RDF I used the analogy of the blind men describing an elephant to describe how people see RDF. With the original fable, each blind man would feel a different part of the elephant and make a decision about what the elephant looked […]