BurningbirdThe current Republican hand waving is now focused on ACORN, the organization’s perennial punching bag whenever a state or national election could be close. You see, it’s not in the Republicans interest to have everyone who is qualified to vote, to actually vote. If it were up to the Republicans, they would filter out anyone […]
Interesting reading about the new Apple notebooks. They do sound very attractive, but I think people were expecting a little more when it came to the “under $1,000” market. One dollar under is more marketing than real commitment to the changing times. You can’t even buy a gallon of gas, or milk, for under a buck […]
Throughout the current economic crises, and well before, there’s one person I’ve returned to again and again for both thoughtful commentary on matters economical and political, and reassurance in difficult times and that’s Paul Krugman. I’m absolutely delighted to read he’s won the Nobel Prize in Economics. I cannot think of anyone who has a better […]
How not to attract new semantic web readers, especially among the women. Write the following: I just thought that this is a smart strategy to make video tutorials about the Semantic Web more appealing to female* or otherwise not so super-tech-savvy* audiences: Just put a Lolcat in it! Though the author wrote that she matches the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Last week, Danny Ayers made a request to the semantic web community at large: that we take turns publishing our own version of This Week’s Semantic Web. I volunteered to start, and hope that others follow, though in comments to Danny’s post, the suggestion about the Gem of the Week sounded […]