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Burningbird

Under construction

I couldn’t resist the title. Just be glad I refrained from using one of the old animated “Under Construction” GIFs. Since I’m no longer on the hook for anything related to HTML5 and RDFa, I can return to my books. Books, plural, as I hope to be starting a new book within the “traditional” publishing […]

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Stuff

Kindle clipping limits

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I love books on history, and have read several on my Kindle. I hope to someday write book reviews, or perhaps use quotes from the books in my future writings. Kindle facilitated this capability by providing functionality to highlight passages, add book notes, and especially, save a Kindle “page” to […]

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RDF Semantics

Wolfram Alpha: What is RDF?

I asked Wolfram Alpha: what is RDF? I would have been more impressed by Wolfram Alpha if at the end of its interpretation of my request, it asked me, “Was this answer correct? Was this answer complete? If not correct or complete, what do you consider RDF to be?” I then asked the same question of […]

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Social Media

When social media closes the door

I have work to do, trying to pull a lot of pieces together into some semblance of a balanced and comprehensive document on HTML5, RDFa, Microdata, et al, but first, I need decompression time from an excess of social media this last week. I don’t know how all of you can manage the various weblog/mailing […]

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Semantics

Google searchology-Rich Snippets

Google is currently having a live presentation on changes the company is making to search. The changes are quite significant, and very impressive. The one that caught my attention, though, is rich snippets. Google will now read and incorporate two open standards, microformats and RDFa, in its search results. So is annotating your page with microformats […]