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Political

Something in St. Louis

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 […]

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Semantics

Where are the Semantic Web applications

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 […]

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Diversity Semantics

Correlation

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 […]

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JavaScript

The Ajax experience

The Expert Panel session at the Ajax Experience conference should be an interesting experience for one and all. I wonder if there will be an automated device that senses the blood pressure of the participants, and automatically sprays safety foam between them, if need be? I did want to reassure one and all that though the Ajax […]

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Media

Netflix sees Starz

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In a game altering play, Netflix has contracted with Starz to add the entertainment channel’s movies to the Watch Now instant watching options AND to provide a live stream of Starz to the Netflix web site. This means that highly rated first run movies such as Ratatouille and No Country for Old […]