BurningbirdMary Hodder writes on women speaking and has this to say: If you aren’t in the loop you aren’t as important as others with similar skills sets and expertise in the eyes of those who fund, engage for consulting, hire for leadership positions, take in PhD candidates or whatever it is that requires discernment between people. […]
When a Japanese whaler developed a fire and put out a distress call, it was a Greenpeace vessel who responded with offers of help. “No thanks”, the Greenpeace ship was told. More on the Japanese whaling industry incidents with anti-whaling forces.
I guess now it’s OK to be against nofollow. Well, thank goodness our opinions have been validated.
Seth Finkelstein has a Guardian article up on paid blogging and high rent versus low rent bloggers: There’s a class division, where membership is exclusive and expensive, while payment is common and cheap. But both are monetisation of attention. If we want there to be areas of human interaction which have some protection against commercial pressures, blogs […]
Uldis Bojars writes: Pipeline architecture itself is not unique to Pipes. Applying it to the Semantic Web (or to RSS) is not unique either – many have been collecting / integrating information from a number of sources and asking questions like “show me the publications by people who know [user input here, e.g. “Stefan Decker”] and […]