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Photography

Close up and not so personal

I am late to this game, but I thought if I was going to be writing about tags, I would try out the various software that people are using. So, I finally signed up for a flickr account. Yeah, give me time and I’ll probably get one of them new fangled touch tone phones, too. […]

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Connecting

Conversation

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am working on a follow up post on tags and folksonomies, but the going is slow, not the least because I’ve been helping folks with trackback spam and various other technical problems. Too much so at one point because I think I deleted good trackbacks along with bad in […]

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Technology

Throttling the Trackback

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was hit with 781 trackbacks last night, all of which went into moderation, but all of which triggered my comment throttle (trackbacks are stored in the same table as comments in WordPress), so if you tried to comment and couldn’t you’ll know why. I added throttles now to the […]

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Weblogging

Rent my background

David Weinberger, that Pygmalian of weblogging, points to an in-depth investigative report that follows on the now famous Incredible JoBlo conference held at Harvard last week. In the report, the hard hitting news hounds at Better Bad News leave no stone unturned in their relentless search for the truth. Do webloggers have an obligation to report who does or […]

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RDF Semantics

The DoD taxonomy gallery

I am writing a follow-up post to Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Café, covering taxonomies as compared to folksonomies, when in my researched I stumbled on to the DoD Taxonomy Gallery. Unfortunately, registration requires sponsorhip by someone with a .gov or .mil email address. I assume the data isn’t restricted; I imagine registration is to keep […]