BurningbirdWhile I appreciate Mark Pilgrim’s This week in HTML5 land weekly reports, there’s one underlying thread that occurs every month that Mark doesn’t necessarily touch on: the issue of distributed extensibility. You know, the namespace, XHTML, SVG and MathML et al thing that doesn’t go away. For instance, catching up on my HTML5 Working Group public archives […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now that’s the ticket…Apple has released its anticipated AppleTV update. I’m installing now, as I write this. Among the changes are support for HD TV shows, of course, but also Genius playlists, as well as being able to put the machine into Standby mode using Settings, rather than having to […]
Welcome to St. Louis tonight. I hope you have your toasted Ravioli and catfish sandwich handy. The weather is lovely, cool and with low humidity. While you’re in town, do be sure to spend at least a little time listening to the Blues, gazing out at the Sip. I won’t be joining you, though. I […]
There’s been an increase of interest about the semantic web lately. ReadWriteWeb asks Where are the RDF-based Applications and references a Nodalities magazine article on generation zero applications. Fortunately, the magazine article is free. Unfortuantely, it’s in PDF, only. Ivan Herman at the W3C Q & A blog references both of the above, and expands on the topic […]
noticed a correlation between my last two posts on the lack of women at Ajax Experience and the seeming lack of RDF or semantic web applications. Both are based on perennial questions: Where are the women in technology? Where are the semantic web applications? Next time I’m asked either, I think I’ll answer that the […]