BurningbirdIf you come here expecting to hear only good about RDF or any of it’s vocabularies and associated technologies, then you will be disappointed. The new specifications for RDF, the model and its serialization syntax, are barely out of the gate, and if you think that now we should be nothing but complimentary about it […]
This weekend I played a bit more with the attachment that allows me to take photos of slides with my digital camera. The ones shown here I took years ago when I lived in Portland, Oregon. The subject is a flock of European Starlings at sunset, just after a storm. Every year our apartment complex in Portland […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m not going to turn this into a mirror for all things FOAF, but I did want to point out an excellent article by Dan Brickley about pages about people. I’m glad that Dan made the ‘not wanting to go there’ point when it comes to writing testimonials, or even implying trust, […]
In the comments to FOAF Girl!, Joseph Duemer wrote: The idea that a link represents “friendship” is so bizarre it had to come from some geek’s stunted view of social relations. A link is an association, the literary sense of that word, but only the context of the link can provide the meaning, the implication, the “spin.” […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Have a brand shiny new FOAF file? Don’t waste your time with small, tasteful little icons. Show your stuff. Show the world that you’re proud of being FOAF’ed. Display… FOAF Girl! (borrowed from http://rdfweb.org/images/foafgirl2.png)