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RDF Semantics

This Week’s Semantic Web, Burningbird style

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Last week, Danny Ayers made a request to the semantic web community at large: that we take turns publishing our own version of This Week’s Semantic Web. I volunteered to start, and hope that others follow, though in comments to Danny’s post, the suggestion about the Gem of the Week sounded […]

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XHTML/HTML

On the Myths and Realities of XHTML

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tina Holmboe from the XHTML WG has written a concise overview of XHTML titled XHTML—Myths and Realities. She’s provided a nice overview of the markup, including the purpose behind the development of XHTML and the state of XHTML today. The only somewhat jarring note I found about the overview is it […]

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Semantics

Where are the Semantic Web applications

There’s been an increase of interest about the semantic web lately. ReadWriteWeb asks Where are the RDF-based Applications and references a Nodalities magazine article on generation zero applications. Fortunately, the magazine article is free. Unfortuantely, it’s in PDF, only. Ivan Herman at the W3C Q & A blog references both of the above, and expands on the topic […]

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HTML5 Semantics

Separating presentation from semantics

After all these years, we have finally reached the point where we’ve separated page organization from presentation, and now we’re about to embark on the same mistakes again, but this time with presentation and semantics. I’ve been following the issues associated with the vocabindex Drupal module, including one where the person submitting the bug stated the […]

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Just Shelley

Planning your own EOL

This week I’m updating my will, which hasn’t been updated since I was married (I’m now divorced). Updating one’s will is never a fun task, but it is essential if you don’t want to leave a mess behind after you die. More importantly, you may not always want everything you own go to Nearest Next […]