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RDF Writing

RDF: Ready for Prime Time

Originally published at O’Reilly, and recovered from the Wayback Machine. Not long ago, Marc Canter, one of the early founders of Macromedia, talked about RDF and the Semantic Web in his weblog. Specifically, he wrote: “I’ve been spending more and more time trying to grok the RDF folks. I have to say I like what I […]

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Writing

Danny’s on at XML.com

Hey, I’m not so caught up in the debate excitement that I’m going to fail to note Danny Ayers first xml.com article, “Extending RSS”. Congrats, Danny! Excellent read.

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Just Shelley

Marbles

I was a real tom boy growing up, more interested in climbing trees then in playing with dolls. I remember getting a Barbie doll, once, and it was a real novelty at first as I tried to slip tiny little shoes on tiny little feet, and tight shirts over not so tiny hard plastic breasts. […]

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Writing

Go Fly a Kite

The talk is of war and politics and the economy, in an endless cycle of news that drags one’s spirits down. I don’t want to talk about these things. Instead, I want to talk about kites. Probably one thing that transcends cultural differences is kites. Kites are made, and flown, the world over. There’s few […]

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RDF Writing

It’s alive!