Monday, August 26 2002
Buzz - Continuing thoughts on F2F
One of the most intriguing parts of this, to me, is section 3.1.2; "How people meet: being in the in-group." Possibly because I'm usually not in the in-group... Storper theorizes...
Unequal Relief
This pisses me off. Victims of terrorism certainly should get some support - that's the function of government in a society. But why should that support take the form of...
Saturday, August 24 2002
Face-to-face communications
This article (you can google for the original paper) is, to me, pivotal to emerging Web standards. Both Semantic Web and Web Services are about machine-to-machine communication; the promise...
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DC:Date
Harumph. Date is a datatype, not a property....
RDF and RSS
Interesting; I'm glad thiswas written, because RDF is good stuff, and this is a good walkthrough. However, it still doesn't approach what I see as the critical problems with using...
Tuesday, August 20 2002
Don Box on Tolerance
Don talks about the evils of tolerance in receiving implementations, and I say Amen, brother! Preach! The classic approach works when there are relatively few implementators; however, when the whole...