BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Loren, who has been sharing tales of courage and horror from his fearsome youth, recounted one incident with a slippery log and a fall into a swift stream. Ever since, he’s hiked out of his way to avoid having to use logs to cross streams. (He and I also shared a five […]
According to the Wikipedia article on citizen journalism: Citizen journalism usually involves empowering ordinary citizens — including traditionally marginalized members of society — to engage in activities that were previously the domain of professional reporters. “Doing citizen journalism right means crafting a crew of correspondents who are typically excluded from or misrepresented by local television news: low-income […]
I spoke too soon on not needing anything. I was working with my laptop on my lap, when a thin line of color streaked across the monitor. I can’t get rid of it, even when I re-boot, which means it’s a hardware problem – probably to do with the casing and the problem I’ve had […]
I still like my analogy to the elephant and the blind men, in chapter 1. People still see RDF, and more generally, the Semantic Web (or my preferred, the lowercase semantic web), from different viewpoints, and with different expectations. That hasn’t changed, and by the nature of the beast, never will. Good. Keeps life interesting. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just read a review of Practical RDF out at Amazon that wasn’t very complimentary. In fact, I’ve had few complimentary reviews of the book, which can happen with a book. Sometimes you hit; sometimes you miss. I can’t do much about the typos in the book (though these really […]