Planet RDFIt's triples all the way downBe your own twitter: laconi.ca microblog platform and identi.ca- July 10, 2008 The laconi.ca microblogging platform is as open as you could hope for. That elusive trinity: open source; open standards; and open content. The project is led by Evan Prodromou ( evan ) of Wikitravel fame, whose company just launched identi.ca , an open microblogging service built with Laconica. These are fast gaining feature-parity with twitter; yesterday we got a replies tab; this morning I woke to find search working. Plenty of interesting people have&160; signed up and grabbed usernames....http://danbri.org/words/2008/07/10/367 (Untitled)- July 9, 2008 Just found out that Google docs supports posting to blogs, so I thought Id try it out Not sure how to include a title for the post yet though! Aha, you just have to change the document title by clicking on the text above the toolbar or so I thought. That doesnt seem to work According to this post the title should be picked up from the document title, so not sure whats going on there. It seems that Google have quietly rolled out offline access for docs too and PDF support at long last with...http://iandavis.com/blog/2008/07/1183 Conflicting voices in the liberal mainstream on FISA- July 9, 2008 Today, the Senate passed a much-debated revision to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with Lots of different views out there, even amongst the mainstream liberal establishment on the upcoming FISA legislation ( Senate Passes Surveillance Bill With Immunity for Telecom Firms , Washington Post, William Branigin, 9 July 2008). In advance of this vote, there has been much debate, recently because Sen. Obama announced that he would support this compromise bill and not vote in support of...http://people.w3.org/~djweitzner/blog/?p=122 Today: the Semantic Web- July 9, 2008 Much of what Ive been discussing here, and among my colleagues has centred around the explanation of the Semantic Web to a wider community than occurs within blog discussions, IRC chats, and the odd article in a technology magazine. Most of the discussions are aimed at the technologically-aware, and can wax complex. Well, this morning I heard a classic description of the Semantic Web, in language which made it easy to follow. It made reference to the idea of linking data, and described the...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nodalities/~3/331024633/today-the-semantic-web.php Bit.ly: a URL shortener with semantic and geo-spatial analysis- July 9, 2008 Bit.ly is a URL-shortener like TinyURL with a host of interesting features, as enumerated in the switchAbit blog. 1. History we remember the last 15 shortened URLs youve created. Theyre displayed on the home page next time you go back. Cookie-based. 2. ClickReferrer tracking Every time someone clicks on a ...http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/09/bitly-a-url-shortener-with-semantic-and-geo-sp... BBC interviews Tim Berners-Lee on Semantic Web- July 9, 2008 The BBC broadcast an interview with Tim-Berners Lee on the future of the Internet". In the interview he talk about the linking open data paradigm. On a related note, MIT recently announced that Tim has been named the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, ...http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/09/bbc-interviews-tim-berners-lee-on-semantic-web... HealthMap mines text for a global disease alert map- July 9, 2008 HealthMap is an interesting Web site that displays a "global disease alert map" based on information extracted from a variety of text sources on the Web, including news, WHO and NGOs. HealthMap was developed as a research project by Clark Freifeld and John Brownstein of the Children's Hospital Informatics ...http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/08/healthmap-mines-text-for-a-global-disease-aler... The Time of Day- July 8, 2008 From my Skype logs 2008-06-19 Dan Brickley: 18:24:23 So I had a drunken dream about online microcurrencies last night. Also about cats and water-slides but thats another story. Idea was of a karma donation system based on one-off assignments from person to person of specified chunks of their lifetime; giving the time of day. youre allowed to give any time of day taken from those days youve been alive so far. theyre not directly redistributable, nor necessarily related to what happened during...http://danbri.org/words/2008/07/08/365 Dean Allemang talks about TopQuadrant and Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist- July 8, 2008 In our latest podcast I talk with Dean Allemang, Chief Scientist at TopQuadrant . We discuss TopQuadrants approach, and the role that semantic technologies play in this, before turning to discussion of the book that Dean recently wrote with previous podcast subject Jim Hendler . During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; Dean Allemangs blog Tim Berners-Lee , and his keynote presentations in Beijing and New York Jim Hendlers podcast Barney Pell Powerset Protg Semantic...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nodalities/~3/329665995/dean-allemang-talks-about-topquadra... XForms + REST + XQuery (+ Jenni Tennison)- July 7, 2008 New, standards-based ways to build cool applications.http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2008/07/xforms_rest_xquery_jenni_tenni.html |