Categories
RDF Semantics

Dumbing down of America

A recent spate of postings at Planet RDF revolve around a two-day session on SPARQL that’s coming up in Europe. It was reading through these that something I noticed recently became more apparent: that most of the semantic web effort, or the effort that’s involved with RDF, is happening in Europe (with some side trips into Canada when the […]

Categories
Social Media Weblogging

WordPress and the hidden articles

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. An interesting story appeared today about the WordPress site, and several thousand articles that could be found in a http://wordpress.org/articles. Disclaimer. I’m hesitant to even write about this, knowing the web’s fondness for angry mob justice, but I feel like it’s an important issue that needs to be addressed. My one request: […]

Categories
Connecting

Danny Ayers: Man of steel

Aside from being a terrific dad to several cats and a cute dog, including my god-daughter Sparql, and a good writer, patient advocate of RDF, artist, and writer, Danny Ayers is also a very good hearted man. It’s an honor to know him. I haven’t met him, but it’s still an honor to know him. Thanks, Danny. […]

Categories
Burningbird Photography

The shop

The Shop: Update. I installed both Coppermine and Gallery photo management software, and after playing around, I decided to stay with Gallery. Coppermine is nice, and a very clean interface. However, Gallery, with it’s themes and pages of configuration allows me to have more control over the interface. I uploaded just a few test photos, but they won’t necessarily […]

Categories
Critters

Girl Doves are from Venus Boy Doves are from Brooklyn

The weather has warmed enormously and all of the birds are out busy making new birds, including the mourning doves. In fact, my window is open and I hear one right next to my window, with that sad, soft, mournful cry. This afternoon I opened the curtain out on to the deck, just in time […]