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Connecting People

Slow waking from a nightmare

Chris’ weblog has become a clearing house for information about his friend, Rick who was seriously hurt in the Bali explosion. As people who knew Rick leave comments, the person who Chris knows becomes someone we know. He’s isn’t faceless. There is no insulation from the pain and the horror of the Bali blast through emotionless news […]

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Weblogging

The wormhole effect

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mark recounted the posting from the referral about the letter to the Register about the Register article about the Wired article about him ranting about Google, but…but…but the cycle was too much for nature and a big wormhole opened up and sucked Mark into another dimension. Probably one without Python. (Now, […]

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Connecting Weblogging Writing

Bali

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave Winer starts a posting today with the title Whining Matilda, in response to the — legitimate — complaints of lack of coverage of the Bali bombing in the American press. He writes: There are plenty of Australian weblogs. The Web is worldwide. Cover it, explain it, grieve it, if the […]

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Weblogging

Bali’s right next door

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Chris writes: My buddy Rick, one of my oldest friends and dearest, has been in Bali for a few weeks. My mate the Bearman got an email from him a couple of days ago, and apparently Rick was partying it up in Kuta last Friday night. The bomb went off on Saturday night, […]

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RDF Writing

Practical RDF—Chapter 1

I just posted the first chapter of Practical RDF to the book review weblog. I plan on posting 2-3 chapters every day until all chapters are posted. I cancelled family commitments as I need to have the chapter reviews finished by the end of the month — I’ll be losing my web server November 4th, when the end […]