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Press Release – for immediate distribution

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. St. Louis, Mo. Burningbird completed its first international transaction this week, with the sale of the threadneedle.org domain to an undisclosed overseas company. Acting as agent for the Bird, Malcolm Baker, otherwise known in financial circles as Baker’s Dozin’, was heard to say, “Well, that was fun. Time for a beer […]

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Semantics Web

What’s it all about, Alfie?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A discussion about the Semantic Web is taking place at Bloggers Unlimited. My hope is that this conversation brings together the techies and the non-techies, and it seems like it is. At least a little bit. More voices would be welcome — all views are welcome. This is a friendly thread. […]

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RSS: The Sledge-o-matic of markup

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Long time no talk about RSS. I’m overdue. Thanks to a pointer from Sam, I read The article Why Blogs haven’t stormed the business world. According to it, the reason why more weblogs aren’t in use today is because it’s too difficult to move content from one tool to another: The greatest […]

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Burningbird Web

Hosting does not matter because the internets is free

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Hosting Matters as a virtual host sucks little wormy, sour green apples. I’ve had nothing but trouble all week with my server (Clio). I keep hearing about slashdot, or this or that, but what it all boils down to, is there are over 500 virtual sites hosted on my machine […]

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Web

Setting the stage

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Clay Shirky took what is basically an informal, distributed, totally loose system we’re all calling LazyWeb (because, well, we tend to like catchy terms), and formalizing the hell out of it. He writes at O’Reilly:   However, the coordination costs of the LazyWeb as a whole are very high, and they will grow as […]