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RDF

Jon Udell on RSS and namespaces

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I love being nothing more than a whiteboard at times…. Jon Udell writes today: What we have now is ‘entity escape and stuff in description’ and I doubt anyone will argue that’s good. Like Dan, I don’t know which of the other two options is best. I do know, however, that […]

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Weblogging

To hear them read

This is marvelous! Aquarion did an audioblog reading of my Parable of the Languages, and did a wonderful job of it. In the companion post, he writes that he did the Parable as warmup for the recording of Mockingbird’s Wish, something I’ve been waiting with anticipation. To hear someone else speak what you write has got to […]

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Weblogging

Neighborhood Changes

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you notice me quiet at Burningbird, look around and you’ll most likely see me busy in the other quiet little nooks that I’m building into the Burningbird Network. I’ve long had an interest in moving my old web resources over into MT content management, and am finally accomplishing this. […]

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Just Shelley

Bright Copper Pennies

Walking down Main, as we would call our barely 5 block long main street that ran through the center of town, I tended to walk with my head down, gaze focused on the ground. This wasn’t because I was a shy child, or a quiet child, or I was being sulky or disrespectful. No, I […]

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Photography

B & W or color

Some photographers focus on black & white photography, others color, but many are like me and we’ll use both depending on the circumstances. For myself, I’ve seen a photo in color that’s uninteresting until you desaturate it, reducing it to greys, blacks, and whites, and then it takes on life and interest. Conversely, other photos […]