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RDF

Mind the Gap!

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. rdfdata.org’s newest data source is The London Tube’s Schedule in RDF/XML. The data is used by the online tubeplanner.com. Putting this data into RDF/XML is a wonderful idea. Can you imagine the possibilities if other London organizations started putting their events into an RDF/XML feed? Add yourself into the mix with FOAF, and a […]

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Plants

My love is like a red, red…

urh…Poppy? Hydrangea? Lilly? Weed?

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RDF Specs

What is FOAF and why do you need it?

I thought I would break in with a little tech talk and discuss FOAF, or Friend of a Friend. If you hang around weblogging for any length of time, you’ll probably come across this term. Might be nice to know that it’s not some kind of new goverment regulation. FOAF is XML created using a specific […]

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Weblogging

When Beauty becomes the beast

Another significant event that webloggers have participated on is the discovery that documents used on a CBS 60 Minutes were most likely fake. These documents were purported to be written by a young George Bush’s commanding officer, where he complains about having to bow to pressure and give Bush preferential treatment. Webloggers went into full cry immediately, […]

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Books

Beauty and the Beast

There is one story for Kitchen I’m working on called “When Beauty becomes the Beast”. It’s about the CBS Documents and their impact on weblogging (not to mention weblogging’s impact on the CBS investigations). For some reason this subject saddens me a bit–as if we’re seeing the end of something that once was and we […]