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 […]
Day: January 25, 2007
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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 […]
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The surest indicator
he surest indicator of how things have changed since the election is that Bush came to Missouri today, but the lead story in St. Louis Today (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch online site) ended up being about the winning Powerball ticket being sold in Missouri. Bush’s visit was relegated to the back pages; along with an […]