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RDF

Ignore the fact that it’s working

Uche Ogbuji is another voice raised in the “RDF is too hard, make it more simple” crew that seems to be have reached a crises all at the same time. Perhaps it’s the moon. Maybe it’s the water. Uche wrote: I get the feeling that in trying to achieve the ontological purity needed for the Semantic […]

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Events of note Photography

Balloon Glow

Last night, I went to the Forest Park Glow: the lighting of the hot air balloons before today’s hound and hare balloon race. It was about the most amazing thing I’d ever seen. The weather was perfect–cool and overcast and without the heat that’s oppressed the area this summer. The crowd was mellow and excited and […]

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RDF Semantics Web

Semantic web lite: same great taste, less reified

Most of the time the feeds at Planet RDF reference isolated items with general interest. Other times, though, the thoughts featured strike sparks against each other, leading to a chain reaction whereby everyone jumps in and Things Happen. Starting a few days ago, people have been referencing two stories, both of which I find very interesting. The […]

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Stuff

Focusing

I have several tasks that need finishing, and I’ve set myself a deadline to finish them. The projects include an overdue software documentation project (which should give hope to the poor soul waiting on it); an article on syndication feeds for O’Reilly; an outline of a presentation on RDF for XML 2005; a PHP nuSOAP interface […]

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XHTML/HTML

Repeating

Dare Obasanjo writes: Repeat after me, a web page is not an API or a platform. Versioning APIs is hard enough, let alone trying to figure out how to version an HTML website so screen scrapers are not broken. Web 2.0 isn’t about screenscraping. Turning the Web into an online platform isn’t about legitimizing bad practices […]