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Diversity Technology

Women in Tech: Maria Webster

Virginia DeBolt has posted another in her series on Women in Technology, this one about Maria Webster from .51. It’s a terrific interview, and appreciations to Virginia in her effort to promote more awareness of women in tech. Maria is an Über geek, with interests that cross the lines from computers to electrical engineering, ham radio, to physics, […]

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Healthcare

Why are all those states dark blue?

Now this is damn clever: using Google searches to trend flu outbreaks. Google is aggregating flu-related searches into trending where flu outbreaks might be occurring, or about to occur. So far, knock on wood, the flu trend graph shows low activity for Missouri.

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Semantics

RDFaification of Drupal 6

You don’t have to wait for Drupal 7 to RDFaificate your Drupal site. I spent yesterday tweaking my space, and if you access the site now with a tool, such as the Semantic Radar Firefox add-on, you’ll see all sorts of semantic goodness. I used a combination of plug-ins and theme modifications to make my changes, and will […]

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Burningbird

Incorporating RDFa, SIOC, FOAF

Expect breakage…incorporating bunches of stuff…

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SVG

SVG Curriculum

I’m doing a curriculum outline for a suggested SVG class for the WaSP Education Task Force. If you were looking for a class on SVG, what would you like it to include? What would you hope to be able to do with SVG, once you came away from the class? Would you be more interested […]