Recovered from the Wayback Machine. David Weinberger responded to my discussion yesterday about semantic web compared to Semantic Web: So, if the semantic web means only that we’re learning to understand ourselves better on the Internet, or even that we often adopt similar terms and rhetoric, then, yes, the Web is constantly semantically webbing itself. And if […]
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On authenticity and friendship
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One last note about the tax board member and weblog writing, if for no other reason to clarify that it was not the IRS I was referencing – it was the California Franchise (tax) board. I was reluctant to mention the name for some reasons I didn’t want to get […]
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Being Deliberate
Joseph Duemer has taken an innovative approach to the comment spammers: he’s billed them. The spammer, who sounds as if he’s two sheets shy of a load, fights back by emailing a complaint against Joe to his employer, the President of Clarkson University. (Joe is a professor at Clarkson). Joe, not to be daunted, then calls […]
Sheila Lennon sent reader questions, including what I wrote about Outrage Radio last week to the Outrage folks, and has published their response. Regarding my comment, the voice of Outrage, James Linkin continues on a recent theme about language being co-opted by politcs, writing: In no particular order: We are all prisoners of language. The turmoil of political discourse over […]
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A year ago today
I’m off on new adventures, pursuing new dreams for a time; ones that aren’t found in front of a computer, so I’m putting this weblog on hiatus for the nonce. I am going to miss all of you, more than you’ll know. Thank you for making my life richer. I hope when I restart this […]