BurningbirdSeth 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 […]
We have a genuine, honest to goodness blizzard blowing in today. Nothing better than to sit at my computer, looking out the window at those poor souls having to unbury their cars.
From Seth today: I am not making up this headline: Tonight at 11, news by neighbors – Santa Rosa TV station fires news staff, to ask local folks to provide programming “I have my own silly little term,” Spendlove said. “Local content harvesting.” A true moment not to be in the process of hydration, for fear of ruining […]