Thursday, May 29 2003
Real-World RDF
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...
XCAP
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...
Wednesday, May 28 2003
While we're talking about standards...
I agree with just about everything that Jim Waldo says here (at least for protocol standards). Well said!...
One-Man Standards
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...
Sunday, May 25 2003
RSS, Subscribers and Business Models (oh, my!)
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....
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Monday, May 19 2003
Look what the browser dragged up...
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,...
Friday, May 16 2003
A sign of bad times?
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...
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Sunday, May 11 2003
Are we bored of RSS Standardization yet?
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...
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Saturday, May 10 2003
RSS Profiling Wiki
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...
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IT Survey in the Economist
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...
Friday, May 9 2003
We need WikiVerbs!
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....
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Thursday, May 8 2003
Conneg based on XML Dialect
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, May 5 2003
Tarawa
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...
Sunday, May 4 2003
The Genius Bar is dry
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...
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Saturday, May 3 2003
Yet more proof of things being seriously wrong in the US these days...
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"...
Semantic Syndication
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...
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RSS Traffic Characterisation
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...
Mail.app broken?
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...
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Thursday, May 1 2003
ZeroConf is cool
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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