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• 1896: The Year We Did Linked Data Right

  
  The Phaneron — Authority:
  “The system of expressing propositions which is called Existential Graphs was invented by me late in the year 1896, as an improvement upon another system published in the Monist for January 1897.” -Charles Peirce 1906 If you didn’t attend this year’s International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) the ...
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• More people than you think will understand

  
  Language Log — Authority: 654
  Andrew Dowd sends me a genuine, attested case of the kind of sentence that I have elsewhere called plausible angloid gibberish . It is a particular kind of mangled comparative that somehow seems English when it isnt. It has absolutely no right to be called grammatical, and nothing can explain why it is that we ...
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• Acne No More Review

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 142
  The eBook on Acne No More is the number 1 selling book in times past in the internet for a reason… Thousands of people of all ages have fully cleared them selves of there acne state and have accomplished clear skin naturally, w/o using drugs, or over the counter creams, just by using the step by step technique ...
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• The Evolution of the Web: Past, Present, Future by Nova Spivack

  
  CMC — Authority: 153
  And continuing further with that series of blog posts with highlights from 2009, here is another one that I thought I would share with you folks today. It’s not going to be the only one touching on this specific topic, but I guess I had to start somewhere. Yes, that’s right! I’m talking about some of the most ...
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• The Evolution of the Web: Past, Present, Future by Nova Spivack

  
  E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez — Authority: 418
  And continuing further with that series of blog posts with highlights from 2009, here is another one that I thought I would share with you folks today. It’s not going to be the only one touching on this specific topic, but I guess I had to start somewhere. Yes, that’s right! I’m talking about some of the most ...
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• winter

  
  The Laughorist — Authority: 129
  is here winter of our content? [as in table of contents? how does one set that table?] or winter of our discontent? so confusing isnt it? because if it is the winter of our discontent then it is the nadir isnt it? the most naked cold and lowest point of our discontent, meaning we can only get warmer or brighter ...
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• The Semantics of Sustainability

  
  Green by Design — Authority: 119
  What does the word sustainability mean to you? It’s relatively straightforward, according to Merriam Webster : of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged. Alright. Easy enough. But when you apply that term to a certain industry ...
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• I Object: Terminology

  
  Songs From The Wood — Authority: 114
  Wicca-derived modern neopagan slang terms like “newbie” and “getting thwapped” have absolutely no place in even moderately reconstructionist pagan religions. “Newbie” is a term implying resentment towards beginners. It’s appropriate in something like online gaming, where beginners can be annoying and in ...
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• Learning

  
  SemanticHacker Blog — Authority: 111
  Consider how we humans learn language. Even with formal education, it takes a child about 15 years starting from infancy to be able to read and understand general news articles in the New York Times. Over this period, one would probably hear or read at least on the order of 10 billion words. Even so, most high ...
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• SEX! TORTURE! BANANA!

  
  The Lousy Linguist — Authority: 500
  Do some words grab your attention more than others because of their semantic content? If I want to get the attention of 12 screaming kids, would I be better off yelling "SEX!" or "EGGPLANT!" This was the topic (kinda) of a study recently reviewed by the excellent Cognitive Daily blog: Huang, Y., Baddeley, A., ...
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• Round On

  
  Literal-Minded — Authority: 414
  My sister Ellen stayed with us last week, in between stops on her Midwest residency interview tour. “Wait,” you’re saying. “You mean the same Ellen who graduated from UT Austin in 2004 has now completed medical school?” You better believe it! Glen has been delighted to have a family member studying ...
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• Barber Clarifies Confusion over ‘Faux Controversy’ about his Bold Description of Homosexual Sodomy

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 591
  Matt Barbers brutally honest description of homosexual sodomy was too much for Exodus International. By Peter LaBarbera Folks, a few days ago we ran a story about CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) allowing a homosexual activist group to be a co-sponsor , in which I quoted my friend (and AFTAH Board ...
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• A bird in the hand is worth health care and a climate consensus in the bush

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 145
  Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. It’s better than nothing. We’re getting it from all direction now, from Copenhagen to the health care bill. The message is delivered by experienced elder statesmen whose benevolence we do not question because they are retired and have no horse in the race -yet they have ...
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• It’s All About The Name: The Brand Generator Pro 1.1 for the iPhone

  
  iPhone News at Desinformado.com | The Complete Source for iPhone News — Authority: 150
  Sit-Net SA today released The Brand Generator Pro 1.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch users. The only iPhone app of its kind, The Brand Generator Pro creates marketable brand names using data derived from semantics and trends. The Brand Generator Pro is driven by market positioning linked with last trends semantic suffixes ...
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• Another notable quotable from PFOX

  
  Ex-Gay Watch — Authority: 494
  Re: “New Jersey State Senator and NAACP’s Bond Support Genderless Marriage While Rejecting Ex-Gay Rights” [ 12-9-09 ] “…major scientific studies and mental health associations have stated homosexuality is not innate,” said Regina Griggs, director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX). “No ...
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• Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Information and Knowledge Technologies at University of Sheffield

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 135
  The University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science the availability of a Lectureship / Senior Lectureship Areas of interest include the Semantic and Future Web (including their use for Knowledge Management in large organisations), Multimedia analysis (including text extraction, speech and ...
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• High drama after YSR son’s antics on Telangana (Parliament Roundup)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) There was high drama in parliament Tuesday after Congress MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy made common cause with his bitter rivals, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), to press for a united Andhra Pradesh, even as he said he stood for a “Golden Telangana” - without specifying what he meant by [...]
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• Semantics of Article Headline and Byline

  
  Konstruktors Notes Konstruktors Notes — Authority: 111
  Can you think of any reason why placing article credits before the headline, like this: August 18, 2009 by Author Name Title of the Post Post body goes here. is semantically worse than moving credits after the title: Title of the Post August 18, 2009 by Author Name Post body goes here.
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• Perambulating Perambulators

  
  Dr. Goodword's Language Blog — Authority: 103
  I’ve been terribly negligent of the Language Blog. My apologies, though I’m afraid the Christmas holidays will not make things any easier. Faye and I are traveling to Colorado where we will be taking the grandchildren out to high tea and their first performance of “The Nutcracker” by the Colorado Ballet. ...
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• ABC’s of Semantic Dictionaries

  
  SemanticHacker Blog — Authority: 111
  A semantic dictionary in essence consists of triples [ t , d , w ] , where t is a term, d is a semantic dimension, and w is a weight. Each triple says that the occurrence of a term t in a document constitutes a raw vote of w for dimension d being relevant to the document. For example, [ BRAD , ...
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