Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After checking out the tech.memeorandum.com web site for a few weeks now I’ve made several observations: First, most of the stories covered are about business, rather than technology. The companies in focus may be technical, but the stories are about commerce. Second, if you’re a woman writing about technology, don’t expect to […]
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Babble Meadow
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My train leaves in about 8 hours and I’m not going to try to nap before taking it. Instead, I’m going to write, about this and that, until I have to close my computer and pack it. My mother did order DSL through her phone company for me to use […]
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The Bottoms Up RDF Tutorial
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I wrote the first chapter of the book, Practical RDF I used the analogy of the blind men describing an elephant to describe how people see RDF. With the original fable, each blind man would feel a different part of the elephant and make a decision about what the elephant looked […]
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Shall we dance?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In 1996, the director Masayuki Suo wrote and directed a quiet little movie called Shall We Dansu (Dance). In 2004, an Americanized version was filmed, this time directed by Peter Chelsom. I watched both recently: the American version first, then the original. I liked both movies; the stories are similar in outline, […]
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Perceived Barriers
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Found via Blogebrity a debate between Anil Dash and Catarina Fake in regards to Flickr’s new interestingness concept. Interestingness is a variation on online popularity, except that rather than links it’s based on an equation of number of comments, number of visitors, and number of times a photo has been listed as someone’s favorite. When you search on […]