Somewhere- May 30, 2008 Alarm Bells Sound for the AmazonBrazil's land mass and farming industry make it one of the most agriculturally productive countries in the world. It has already been dubbed "the world's feeding bowl" and is exporting more and more to emerging economies, such as India and China.As China's middle-class continues to grow, so, too, does its demand for food. Brazil exports 10 million tons of soybeans to China a year for both animal feed and human consumption, trade that is crucial to Brazil's...http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/05/somewhere.html RDF Processing- May 26, 2008 One of the interesting things about biological data, and probably other types, is that a lot of it is not quite the right structure. That's not to say that there's not people working to improve it, the Gene Ontology seems to be updated almost daily, but data in any structure maybe wrong for a particular purpose. Biologists make a habit, out of necessity, of just hacking and transforming large amounts of data to suite their particular need. Sometimes, these hacks get more generalized and...http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/05/rdf-processing.html git + RDF = versioned RDF- May 12, 2008 Reading, Git for Computer Scientists, and it seems like if you turn the blob into a set of triples you pretty much have versioned RDF (or molecules even).I'm also wondering, if Digg is so pro-Semantic Web, where's the http:digg.comsemwebhttp://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/05/git-rdf-versioned-rdf.html I See Triples- May 10, 2008 Digg makes official its adoption of a 'semantic Web' standard "Other brief mentions on Digg's blogs over the past month have been the only indications the company has been giving to the world of its direct -- and perhaps even principal -- involvement in RDF and RDFa, besides a simple check of the site's own source code, where attributions such as rel="dc:source" property="dc:title" within <DIV> elements are now common. A few weeks ago, developer Bob DuCharme discovered these little...http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-see-triples.html Bankrupt- May 6, 2008 "And now, we're Americans are the most religious nation on earth - that's why we kill so easily. We're sending people to heaven. And because we are now terribly, terribly religious in a sense that no proper American ever was when I was young - I was in the Second World War." - Gore Vidal.And they are bankrupt in the finacial sense as well due to Iraq (and other causes of course). The speaker also follows a line I've seen often where the war has been fought without enough commitment from the...http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/05/qotd.html Grep the Web- May 2, 2008 Slides and talks from the recent Hadoop Summit are now available. Some of the more interesting ones is Facebook's Hive, Amazon's GrepTheWeb, IBM's JAQL and Yahoo's just about everything else.http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/05/grep-web.html When URIs are too Much- May 2, 2008 Every Subject is a Blank Node "In RDF, URIs are good at defining unambiguous property values, in other words objects, including type. But very often, and maybe most of the time, the individual subject (in both meaning of subject of an RDF triple, and topic maps subject of conversation) is best represented as a blank node bearing all kinds of identified properties, but none of them conferring absolute identity. This way, it's left to applications to figure out identification rules, in other...http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/05/when-uris-are-too-much.html Long tail of programming languages- May 2, 2008 While I'm sick of long tail blahs, I recently came across the idea that programming languages follow the same power laws found in other areas. This particular long tail this should be encouraging for those who have a disdain for the current mainstream computer languages, "Rather than finding ways to create an even lower lowest common denominator, the Long Tail is about finding economically efficient ways to capitalize on the infinite diversity of taste and demand that has heretofore been...http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/05/long-tail-of-programming-languages.html Engrich- May 1, 2008 The ability for a foreigner to speak just enough English in order to swindle stupid Westerners.http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/05/engrich.html |