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RDF Semantics

The elephant strikes again

Danny Ayers and Bill de hÓra got into a bit of back and forth on RDF and Bill’s response reminded me again of the blind wise men and the elephant. Each person describes a different creature when asked to describe the whole from just the part they touched: one touching the leg assumes the creature is a large, stumpy […]

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Environment Events of note

Johnson’s Shut-Ins: Then and now

The proposed new plan for the rebuilding of Johnson Shut-Ins park can be found here. As can be seen, the changes are rather drastic, including a restructuring of the stream through the park. Additional parking, scour overlook, new trails, new interpretive centers–the changes are rather extensive, and meant to support a larger number of visitors due […]

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Just Shelley

Tight corners

It doesn’t rain, it pours, or some such thing. Sometimes there seems to be little work, other times, too much. Lately I’ve had a good amount of work, enough that I thought about going on hiatus with the weblog–focusing on work, the development server, et al. Rather than some kind of formal break, though, I’ll […]

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Social Media

Some of my best friends are z-listers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Adam Green has a suggestion for Doc Searls and his quandry about being a gatekeeper: The answer is simple Doc, just find a good post from a blogger you haven’t noticed before and link to it. You can direct a firehose of traffic to a blog by doing this. On the basis of […]

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Weblogging

No, I own the new gatekeepers

While I work on both the Johnson Shut-Ins post, in addition to trying to wrap my head around ExpressionEngine modules, there have been some writings too good to miss. Seth Finkelstein writes New Gatekeepers are still Gatekeepers: This world is exactly the same as *every* *other* *media* *world*, in that there’s a few participants who have […]