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RDF Writing

Final TOC and home stretch

Next week I’m delivering to my editor the complete first draft of “Practical RDF” for O’Reilly. Yeah, finally. No one has seen the complete TOC, including the tools, APIs and whatever used in the book and I thought I would provide a heads up before the book is released for public review. If you’re interested, […]

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Semantics

Good Enough

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mark Pilgrim does not believe in the Semantic Web. He believes Semantics is hard; that the syntax for the Semantic Web is laughably complex. Mark wants to stay with the “…simple but relatively well-defined semantics of HTML.” HTML is good enough for Mark, and I say that’s great, because no one wants […]

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Technology Web

First, let’s fire the boy-racer HTML programmers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Joe Clark, author of Building Accessible Webs in a Jonathon Delacour interview:   And of course we’ll also have to fire the boy racers’ clueless Dockers-wearing manager dweebs, who consider themselves old-timers because they got online in 1998 (!) and whose entire experience of the Internet is the commercial Web as rendered through […]

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RDF

Newest RDF goodies and challenges

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I spent the last several days reading through the six RDF documents currently under final review. During the last few days I acted the minor irritant to some members of the W3C RDF Working Group, primarily getting clarification on some confusing or complex aspects of the documents. I also spent […]

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RDF

The White Shoes of Technology

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This week, the RDF Working Group released drafts of six working documents for the RDF specification. Six. That’s a whole lot of work. However, rather than getting a pat on the back with a quiet “Well done.”, the group has seen their effort catechized mercilessly. Joe Gregorio chronicles Tim Bray’s half-hearted attempt to […]