BurningbirdI released my latest way too large opus on tagging and folksonomies and will most likely take a break from the concept for awhile. (Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Cafe was the first.) While I don’t share the wild enthusiasm that all we need are tags and folksonomies to fuel the semantic web, I did find tags […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine (includes comments). The purpose of Trackback initially was to ping the readers of another’s post about something they may want to know about. Of course, we immediately started using it as a referrer link (“Hi, I linked to you!”) So, we’re dropping trackback and we need something in its place. […]
I am writing a follow-up post to Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Café, covering taxonomies as compared to folksonomies, when in my researched I stumbled on to the DoD Taxonomy Gallery. Unfortunately, registration requires sponsorhip by someone with a .gov or .mil email address. I assume the data isn’t restricted; I imagine registration is to keep […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This new item has hit Slashdot: Deriving Semantic Meaning from Google Results. Seems a couple of scientists have devised a method where they take page results for pairing of words and from these determine which pairing is more semantically meaningful. They call this the Normalized Google Distance or NGD for short. Their […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s a rare event when several seemingly disparate items of interest all come together to form a compelling, coalescent whole. This event happened for me the past few weeks; an experience formed of discussions about digital identity and laws of same, LID, Technorati Tags, new and old syndication formats, Google’s […]