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Technology

What’s shorter than 140 characters?

What can possibly top Twitter and its immediacy, as well as brevity of contact? I think we found out this week, with Google Wave. Tim O’Reilly describes it as what email would be like if invented today. My first reaction, and judging from other responses, is that it’s remarkably similar to Ray Ozzie’s Groove, before Groove […]

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Stuff

A new countdown to DTV

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The switch to digital TV within the US will happen in less than three weeks. However, according to the Government run DTV web site, 42% of the TV broadcast market has already made the transition. If you’re reading this page via the Internet, I’m guessing you’ve already made your DTV switch. […]

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Critters Photography

May 23 at the Zoo

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RDF Standards XHTML/HTML

A Loose Set of Notes on RDFa, XHTML, and HTML5

There’s been a great deal of discussion about RDFa, HTML5, and microdata the last few days, on email lists and elsewhere. I wanted to write down notes of the discussions here, for future reference. Those working issues with RDFa in Drupal 7 should pay particular attention, but the material is relevant to anyone incorporating RDFa. […]

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Burningbird

Under construction

I couldn’t resist the title. Just be glad I refrained from using one of the old animated “Under Construction” GIFs. Since I’m no longer on the hook for anything related to HTML5 and RDFa, I can return to my books. Books, plural, as I hope to be starting a new book within the “traditional” publishing […]