Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I removed the last paragraph from my last posting. It added nothing to the discussion and was unnecessarily snarky. Still, doing so doesn’t impact on the message threaded throughout the post that *I’m not supportive of universal (read that ‘federated’) digital identities. I don’t believe there is a system that […]
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You want we should what?
I’ve briefly mentioned Microsoft’s InfoCards, and chances are you may have heard snippets of it elsewhere. InfoCards is the company’s planned implementation of a digital identity infrastructure it terms “Identity Metasystem”. Johannes Ernst of LID fame provides a good, plain language description and scenario for the concept. Though much of the details are still unknown, we do […]
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Integrated metadata
As you may, or may not, have noticed, I’ve been integrating various pieces of metadata into the site, primarily into each individual post. Eventually I’ll remove the ‘meta’ option for each page, and just provide a machine consumable RDF/XML option — the humanly readable components will show directly. Right now I’m creating a plugin in […]
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The i86 applesauce
How do you make i86 Applesauce? You take an Apple, carve out the PowerPC core, replacing it with Intel sugar and a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg. Then you hold a press conference, throw the Apple to the developers, buyers, and vendors, and let their agitation smash it all to hell. What’s left is a […]
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What is a tag?
I’ve been incorporating the semantic data my application gathers into weblog posts. You can see it in operation over at Burningbird, in the individual posts (see references example below and the photo example). During this, I ran into a wall on the topic of tags. I wanted to record tag-like information as RDF statements, but then I […]