Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I went to bed at 3 and got up at 6 so have had 3 hours of sleep, and feel much better. Today was also my last day on the contracted job. The people at the place where I worked were very likable, the consulting company that arranged the gig […]
Category: Semantics
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Harvard Support?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave Winer uses his Harvard weblog, and we assume the clout and prestige of his Harvard position, to push the weblogging industry into backing his versions of both RSS and a Weblogging MetaAPI. There’s already been discussion about Winer taking on ‘co-creator’ claims with RSS — something I and others dispute. […]
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The meaning web
You may not be aware of this, but elements of the semantic web are already in place. For instance, if you’re not sure how to spell ‘algae’, you can search for a variation of the word, such as ‘algie’ along with a few characteristics, such as ‘slime’, ‘green’, and ‘water’, and Google responds with Do you […]
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RDF: Binary XML
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tim Bray has had a couple of essays on RDF, including an offer of a domain, RDF.net, to someone who invents an RDF tool he would like to use. I wonder if he likes poetry? I wonder if I’m interested in yet another domain? Tim’s pushback isn’t against RDF, which […]
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What didn’t work
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The RDF Poetry Finder was more than a personal interest of mine — it was an attempt to see if a project could go from idea stage to implementation through the efforts of people who participated purely on interest — no formal group formation whatsoever. Additionally, it was a project […]