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Semantics

The Semantics of Starlings

This weekend I played a bit more with the attachment that allows me to take photos of slides with my digital camera. The ones shown here I took years ago when I lived in Portland, Oregon. The subject is a flock of European Starlings at sunset, just after a storm. Every year our apartment complex in Portland […]

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Semantics

Context and Meaning

In the comments to FOAF Girl!, Joseph Duemer wrote: The idea that a link represents “friendship” is so bizarre it had to come from some geek’s stunted view of social relations. A link is an association, the literary sense of that word, but only the context of the link can provide the meaning, the implication, the “spin.” […]

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RDF

FOAF and Web of Trust

Marc Cantor recently sent an email to the RDFWeb-Dev mailing list regarding FOAF. I chatted with Marc about this offline, and also the concept of ‘verification’ of FOAF relationships. The social aspects of the increased interest in FOAF, I’ll discuss in the Burningbird weblog, but there are some RDF components I wanted to touch on here. For […]

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Technology Weblogging

Returning to Business

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It was interesting to read Evan William’s carefully written essay about weblogging APIs this morning, and watch his writing as it slowly revolves around to the need for standards, particularly in the chaotic and competitive world of weblogging technology. As he, and others, are discovering, they have to be prepared to take […]

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RDF

Poetry Finder: A bit more and a little geek

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interrupting the play I’m having with the RDF Poetry Finder essays to see what others are saying, and also to add some geek stuff so people know that there really is a string at the end of this particular balloon. Joseph Duemer (and Frank Paynter, indirectly) expressed some concerns about the image=abstraction view of poetry, […]