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Weather

Now this side of the country…freeze!

You only have to look at the *severe weather map to find that most of the country from the midwest to the east is suffering either high wind advisories or winter storms. We in St. Louis are in the middle of the high wind and with dropping temperatures, and there is no way I’ll be out today. […]

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Semantics

Semantic web enabler of the year

If there was a Semantic Web Enabler of the Year award, I would nominate the site rdfdata.org (and the creator, Bob DuCharme) daily, and twice on Sunday. Especially when you see data such as details of terrorist acts since 1988, organized in OWL. My jaw dropped when I looked through it. My, my, what the warbloggers […]

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Social Media Specs

I broke Nofollow

I’m still trying to write something on Technorati Tags. What’s slowing me up is there’s been such a great deal of interesting writing on the topic that I keep wanting to add to what I write. And, well, the weather warmed up to the 60’s again today, and who am I to reject an excuse […]

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Burningbird Weblogging

This is a disclaimer

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This is the only disclaimer I will issue from this site. It reads: I will never issue a disclaimer at this site. Again. The discussion rages around us about how we’re in danger of losing our credibility, or our ethics are in question. However a more serious issue is at […]

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Specs Weblogging

The other shoe on nofollow

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I expected this reason to use nofollow would take a few weeks at least, but not the first day. Scoble is happy about the other reason for nofollow: being able to link to something in your writing and not give ‘google juice’ to the linked. Now, he says, I can link to […]