Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Lifted my head long enough from Adding Ajax to see a fooflah about Flickr’s newest announcement. Flickr had said a long time ago that there would be a time when you won’t be able to have a login separate from a Yahoo account. Today the group announced that it’s no longer […]
Month: January 2007
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A Matter of Language
When all things are equal, inequality reflects failure. Virginia DeBolt responded to my earlier writing about technology education being broken with a post about Educating Women in Technology. She references two innovative programs: New Horizons, at Mills College in Oakland, California, which teaches computer technology to those with a non-technical background; and the University of […]
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Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Cafe
Recovered (comments and all) from the Wayback Machine. It’s a rare event when several seemingly disparate items of interest all come together to form a compelling, coalescent whole. This event happened for me the past few weeks; an experience formed of discussions about digital identity and laws of same, LID, Technorati Tags, new and old […]
I’ve been playing with mash-ups lately for the book, and at one point had to slap myself in the face to get me to Stop! Stop! Not another service! straup at Flickr’s announcement of “machine tags” is significant, because, as he demonstrated, it really is the same as RDF, except without the scary name (and we’ll shoot […]
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Honest Cruft
When I went looking for a FOAF file to copy for my playing around with Ajax, RDF, Flickr, and so on, I immediately thought of Dan Brickley’s FOAF file, and once I had copied it locally, I just plugged it into my application, without validating the RDF/XML first. I did so with confidence because I knew […]