The problem with a developer being around during the design phase of an application is that the developer tends to pull things back to an implementation viewpoint – we can’t help ourselves. However, a discussion about ThreadNeedle and RSS is, I feel, important at this time. Why am I not creating ThreadNeedle as a new […]
Category: Semantics
Technology to enable community
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Serendipity is such a major component of my life, never more so than when I read Gary’s attempt to manually connect the multiple threads to the whole discussion about Identity. While I’m on my long journey through distance and time, I’m working on a new application that will provide a means to […]
Doing my part: RSS auto-discovery
Since weblogging is all about RSS and aggregation, I’ve added the Mark Pilgrim RSS auto-discovery code to my weblog’s template. Note: In the interests of disclosing any bias, be aware that I am writing a book on RDF, and that I support RSS 1.0 based on the RDF specification.
Search engine
Since Google is going to the birds we should check out this new search engine that Allan found, Teoma. I tried it and have found some really fascinating results based on burningbird, burning bird, and Shelley Powers. For instance, with “burningbird”, Phoenix Systems who owns burningbird.com (note that I own burningbird.net), shows on the first page. In google, I have no idea where […]
RSS debate
Well, now. Do you think that Dave is talking about the recent RSS posts from myself, Jonathon Delacour, and Jon Udell when he writes the following under the title of Meta-Blogging: Aggregation: Is goodness. Think of it as a way of upping the bandwidth of people whose minds are sponges and want to learn as much as possible. In time of […]
