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Semantics

Good Enough

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mark Pilgrim does not believe in the Semantic Web. He believes Semantics is hard; that the syntax for the Semantic Web is laughably complex. Mark wants to stay with the “…simple but relatively well-defined semantics of HTML.” HTML is good enough for Mark, and I say that’s great, because no one wants […]

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Technology Web

First, let’s fire the boy-racer HTML programmers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Joe Clark, author of Building Accessible Webs in a Jonathon Delacour interview:   And of course we’ll also have to fire the boy racers’ clueless Dockers-wearing manager dweebs, who consider themselves old-timers because they got online in 1998 (!) and whose entire experience of the Internet is the commercial Web as rendered through […]

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RDF

Newest RDF goodies and challenges

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I spent the last several days reading through the six RDF documents currently under final review. During the last few days I acted the minor irritant to some members of the W3C RDF Working Group, primarily getting clarification on some confusing or complex aspects of the documents. I also spent […]

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RDF

The White Shoes of Technology

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This week, the RDF Working Group released drafts of six working documents for the RDF specification. Six. That’s a whole lot of work. However, rather than getting a pat on the back with a quiet “Well done.”, the group has seen their effort catechized mercilessly. Joe Gregorio chronicles Tim Bray’s half-hearted attempt to […]

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Diversity RDF Technology

Outside even among the outsiders

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Warning: Big time rant. Male/Female thing. Read at own risk. Being a woman trying to find a place among the techie guys isn’t easy, particularly since the areas of technology of interest to me rarely have other women participants. Don’t have to believe me, take a look at the RSS-Dev […]