I had volunteered for TechWatch because Missouri is one of the states that had contested election results in 2000 and several of the counties are using the electronic voting system. I heard that they needed experienced tech people, especially people familiar with PHP and MySQL. One of the emails I received was a call for someone […]
Author: Shelley Powers
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Correction
Recovered from the Wayback Machine Excuse me. The Delta Airlines flight attendant was not fired for blogging. She was fired for posting photos of herself in a rather provocative pose, wearing her uniform, on one of her company’s planes. She was fired for posting the photo, and that specific photo I have no doubt – not for […]
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Following on the theme
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Following on the theme of how we can have a lovely time in London, thanks to RDF and the seman…ooops! Semantic Web, rdfdata.org has pointed to another set of RDF data related to travel: OpenGuides . According to the site, OpenGuides is a network of free, community-maintained “wiki” city guides to which anyone […]
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ICANN: Enabling the stalker
You’ve had a weblog for a couple of years. You started out with a Blogspot weblog, but have since started your own domain. You write about politics, but also about your life and interests, just like most webloggers. You’re aware of not giving away much about yourself, so you don’t talk about work or the […]
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Faulty URIs
Dare Obasanjo has a good post today on the failure of URIs when it comes to their role as identifiers within the Semantic Web, and points to a TAG discussion thread and a referendum on this issue. I don’t subscribe anymore to the TAG emails–too male, too pedantic–so I appreciate having these items pointed out. Still, Dare sums it up best […]