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Semantics Standards

Up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The markup folks are going to be the weblogging death of me yet. It’s a variation on the classic differences between the back-end or server-side developer and the front-end designer/developer. All front-end folks know that we back-end folks are slobs when it comes to proper markup, clean web pages, and […]

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RDF

Discussion thread

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Working on ThreadNeedle’s vocabulary tonight. One additional level of sophistication could be to record a posts entire parentage within the RDF e.g. a – b – c – x – f – g The “path” to ‘g’ would be: a – x – f – g This isn’t complete discussion, […]

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Just Shelley

More angry voices

From the archives, Wayback Machine has an entry including comments from 2002 Interesting comments on the Value of Anger posting. As I expected, this is not a subject that people tread lightly. However, I was surprised at how personally some people took this posting. For instance, Dave Rogers disagrees, strongly, with the concept of “healthy anger”, writing: Anger isn’t […]

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Technology Weblogging

Zip-zip

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I like Movable Type’s trackback, but the problem with it is that now there’s two areas whereby the popularity of a posting is judged – the comment count AND the trackback count. If a posting is a zip-zip, should it just quietly fold its tent, wonder off into the desert […]

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Political Social Media

Verbal weaponry in the war against terrorism

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I knew something was up when I kept getting all these hits from Josh Trevino’s weblog. Seems Josh has been using me for an adjective again. (I do seem to generate all these strong feelings, don’t I? How nice to know that I generate such love/hate – leaves me all warm […]