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This map is amazing. (from Strange Maps)

[27 July 2008] The more I think about RDF’s goal of providing a monotonic semantics for RDF graphs (under pressure in part from my colleague Thomas Roessler, to whom thanks), the more the RDF triple seems to be an attempt to operationalize Wittgenstein’s notion of atomic fact, with all the advantages and disadvantages that that entails.

In his enlightening essay Si tacuisses, Enrique …, my colleague Thomas Roessler outlines some specific ways in which RDF’s provision of a strictly monotonic semantics makes some things possible for applications of RDF, and makes other things impossible.

[22 July 2008; minor revisions 23 July] Some colleagues and I spent time not long ago discussing the proposition that RDF has intrinsic semantics in a way that XML does not. My view, influenced by some long-ago thoughts about RDF, was that there is no serious difference between RDF and XML here:

Summer School on the Semantic Web July 14th, 2008 Last week, I attended the Sixth European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW’08). As the name implies (well, not only implies..), it’s a summer school on Semantic Web stuff. The school promises a good combination of theoretical and practical exercises (ref.

So - I’m always going on about the importance of online-to offline transition. Well, its not just me. Here’s how Google really do maps… Google Maps Thanks to DarkRoastedBlend for this…

This morning was a good one. I got on the bus, armed with breakfast banana in hand, and right there in front of me sat fellow Topic Mapper Stian Danenbarger (from Bouvet), who happened to be living just literally down the road from me.

This morning was a good one. I got on the bus, armed with breakfast banana in hand, and right there in front of me sat fellow Topic Mapper Stian Danenbarger (from Bouvet), who happened to be living just literally down the road from me.

Image via Wikipedia qyzork? huh?  What’s with these names? How the hell do you even pronounce that? Gyzork is yet another bookmarking app, sort of like delicious and stumble you know one of those. Keep all you articles that you like in one place.

Yes, yes, I admit the herasy; I like PHP. No, no, PHP has tons of worts with it, so no, it's not better that alternative X, Y or Z for task Q, W or E. I hate comparing languages this way, feature by feature, syntax by semantics, and so on. I like to judge languages on two things; Environment I really like the CGI style for web resources.