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RDF

A little light if you please

I think, I think, I think too much. I miss my hour, taken in last nights Daylight Savings Time raid. Time for a bit of lightness before I get serious again: Ben Hammersley has decided to follow that old and obsolute BLX 1.0 standard rather than the shiny new BLX 2.0. As for his claim to have created an RDF […]

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Weblogging

Accountability: are comments backchannels?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In the last post I introduced the topic of accountability and freedom of expression and tied Creative Commons in with backchannels and comments, and we could even extend this association to the ethics of weblog editing. I find it ironic that some of the people who support backchannels at conferences, also support editing and deleting of […]

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Weblogging

Accountability

The recent discussions about backchannels reminds me of the discussions about comment registration and editing, which, in turn, reminds me of the old discussions we had about Creative Commons. What do all these seemingly disparate items have in common? With each, there is a tradeoff between personal freedom and accountability. I wrote about Creative Commons […]

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Weblogging

Sleeping dogs

I have two more anniversary retrospective pieces to write, but the going is slow because so many of the old links are broken. In some cases the weblogs, and the webloggers are gone–and when I did stop thinking about them? Mostly though, we changed weblogging tools, or there was a time when all of us […]

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Photography

Area 44

Today was a beautiful day, warm and sunny, and I headed to Area 44 to see if the dogwood were in bloom yet. Found plenty of blooms, but no dogwood. I won’t go to Area 44 in the summer because the ticks are so thick there, but I wanted to catch the dogwoods this year. […]