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Semantics

Context and Meaning

In the comments to FOAF Girl!, Joseph Duemer wrote: The idea that a link represents “friendship” is so bizarre it had to come from some geek’s stunted view of social relations. A link is an association, the literary sense of that word, but only the context of the link can provide the meaning, the implication, the “spin.” […]

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Photography

Welcome sign

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Photography

Al-l-l-most

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RDF

FOAF Girl!

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Have a brand shiny new FOAF file? Don’t waste your time with small, tasteful little icons. Show your stuff. Show the world that you’re proud of being FOAF’ed. Display… FOAF Girl! (borrowed from http://rdfweb.org/images/foafgirl2.png)

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Social Media

I wanna hold your hand

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Networks of friends, or at least people that know each other, seem to be very popular lately – I had two invitations yesterday to two different ‘friends’ networks. While I appreciate the thought and the invitation – I really do – I declined both; not because I don’t care for […]