“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames
Thursday, 29 May 2003
Jo Walsh has created a Semantic Web system that appeals quite strongly - a means of using RDF to map to the real world in "gonzo geographical data collection". Very nice. I've been thinking about RDF-izing the Travel bookmarks for...
Thursday, 29 May 2003
Jonathan Rosenberg published a new Internet-Draft, XCAP, to the SIMPLE Working Group in the IETF. Here's the skinny: Abstract This specification defines the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP). XCAP allows a client to read, write and modify...
Wednesday, 28 May 2003
I agree with just about everything that Jim Waldo says here (at least for protocol standards). Well said!...
Wednesday, 28 May 2003
Dave Winer argues that RSS implementers should toe the line: The same philosophy dictates an end to the disagreement over RSS. If they want respect for the formats and protocols they implement, they must do RSS exactly as UserLand does....
Sunday, 25 May 2003
Tim Bray thinks out loud about mechanisms to allow RSS subscribers to be counted. His poison of choice is adding a query components to the URI in the Referrer header. I don't think that this is such a hot approach,...
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Monday, 19 May 2003
Oh... My... Gawd... I'm sooo confused. It's a Web site, and it has an RSS feed, and it uses Moveable Type, and it even has a blogroll down the side, so it must be a blog, right? But, like, it's...
Friday, 16 May 2003
Hmm. Passed the 12 Galaxies guy on the way home from work today. Usually, he's very polite and keeps to himself. This time, he was yelling at passers by and waving his sign at him. Violently. Hope he's OK......
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Sunday, 11 May 2003
Don wants to send RSS to OASIS, of all places. Doesn't that mean it'll have to be corporations standardizing it? Urgh. I agree with most of Tim's assessment; the IETF is the most hospitable place for this. I'm happy to...
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Saturday, 10 May 2003
Don, Sam, Ben, Mena and others have started blogging about a profile of RSS. I don't think blogs are the best medium for this kind of development - it's too hard to follow a thread, and it's too easy for...
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Saturday, 10 May 2003
If you are in "the industry," you owe it to yourself to go out and pick up a copy of this week's Economist. Alongside their customary digs at Larry Ellison (what do they have against that guy? I can't imagine...)...
Friday, 9 May 2003
Before, I was wondering about the intersection of Wikis and the Semantic Web. I've since done some noodling and prototyping, and the idea came together on the train home tonight. You *can* build some semantics using just WikiNames. For example,...
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Thursday, 8 May 2003
I know at least one person who will think that this is a good idea. Anybody else? I'd looove to do this work......
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Monday, 5 May 2003
I've finally gotten sick enough of a project that I've been working on for waaaay too long to release it to the unsuspecting^H^H^H general public. Tarawa is, in short, a HTTP server API that tries to apply some of the...
Sunday, 4 May 2003
Don't get me wrong - I love Apple and all things apple. But, the Genius bar at the Apple Store never fails to annoy. Every time I go in with a hardware problem, I have to wait behind an endless...
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Saturday, 3 May 2003
From the Montreal Gazette - "Deborah Wolfe, a Canadian citizen who was just breast-feeding her son and changing his diaper while en route between Houston and Vancouver, says her "subversive" actions led to her being threatened with detainment, RCMP involvement...
Saturday, 3 May 2003
Excellent. Danny Ayers proposes a Simple Semantic Resolution RSS 2.0 Module. This approach is the most sensible for ANY application of Semantic Web technology (as I've argued before). Rather than foisting RDF's ugly, unusable XML syntax on applications, map from...
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Saturday, 3 May 2003
I'm setting up a weblog for a fairly well-known colleague, and doing some traffic estimates to try to size his server. Assumptions: * 5000 people will eventually subscribe to the weblog * Each person's aggregator will poll once an hour...
Saturday, 3 May 2003
One of the joys of moving to a mac for my personal machine is using Apple's excellent Mail.app; IMHO it's the best GUI mail client yet. However, I'm having a WEIRD problem; it seems that all drag-and-drop in Mail.app is...
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Thursday, 1 May 2003
Anybody know how to get ZeroConf working on Linux, so that I can advertise services on my server to the Macs at home?...
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