Shirky on The Semantic Web
The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview: Clay Shirky gets medieval on The Semantic Web. "In an echo of Richard Gabriel's Worse is Better argumment, the Semantic Web imagines that completeness and correctness of data exposed on the web are the cardinal virtues, and that any amount of implementation complexity is ...
Published: November 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
The Semantic Web
The Semantic Web: This is one of the terms that s been lurking on the periphery of my mind for about a year. I keep hearing it and meaning to look into it. Today I stumbled onto a good article about The Semantic Web and what it means. Most of the ...
Published: June 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 975
Anil Dash on the Semantic Web
waffle: under the iron: Anil Dash of Six Apart and LinkedIn has some comments over at Waffle about the future of The Semantic Web: "The most productive next steps are going to happen in a few phases, I suspect. The first will be new generations of blogging tools that natively ...
Published: June 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 955
Semantic HTML Markup Guide
Markup Guide: Here's a handy guide to all those obscure HTML tags you never use, and probably should. A lot of these tags giving meaning to the text they affect, not just formatting, much as we discussed in this post about the ADDRESS tag a few months ago.
Published: June 6, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 904
The ADDRESS Tag
Joe and I got to talking about this little-known HTML tag today. It's an odd-bird one of the few HTML tags that provides semantic meaning, as if it would be more at home in XML. I found this explanation, which is what Joe and I suspected: The devisors of ...
Published: March 7, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 749
WordPress
WordPress : Looks like a good blogging platform built on PHP / MySQL, which is just so much more hackable than the Perl / MySQL backend Movable Type uses. GPL, even. WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a ...
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 729
AdSense for Domains
Google AdSense for domains: Domain squatters, your AdSense program has arrived. Apparently it keys off the domain name itself, since there's nothing else on the page. AdSense for domains allows domain name registrars and large domain name holders to unlock the value in their parked page inventory. AdSense for domains ...
Published: May 31, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 722
URI Namespace for Dates and Times
PlaceTime.com - URIs for Places and Times: The need for this may not be immediately obvious, but more and more URIs are being used for identification of people, objects, and now times. "PlaceTime.com is intended to be a URI space containing URIs that represent places and times.These URIs ...
Published: September 22, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 715
CSS Naked Day
CSS Naked Day: I wish I had mentioned this earlier, but it's a good idea nonetheless. Where did my Design go? The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a ...
Published: April 5, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 706
Zen Garden: The Book
At some point, I think every web jockey has scoped out the CSS Zen Garden for a little inspiration (I dig this one). It's a great example of the power that comes from the separation of style from content, and the proper use of semantic markup. Judging by this link ...
Published: October 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 688
Scientific Journal Archive
arXiv.org e-Print archive: Here's a huge archive of scientific papers, including some great ones on computer science and information architecture (scroll just a bit it's towards the bottom). With great titles like "Semantic Linking a Context-Based Approach to Interactivity in Hypermedia," "The Revolution In Database System Architecture," and ...
Published: August 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 687
Chandler 0.1
Open Source Applications Foundation - Our Product "Chandler" - Description: Chandler is the Big Thing that Mitch Kapor (the guy who brought us Lotus 1-2-3) has been working on for a year now. Version 0.1 is out. Here's his vision: "Recent open-source groupware products and projects (Evolution, Kroupware) use Outlook ...
Published: June 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Microformats
Move over, AJAX. Microformats are the new 'it' technology: Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current ...
Published: December 8, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 663
Using Bayesian Analysis to Filter Blog Posts
Working with Bayesian Categorizers: Jon Udell tests a novel theory: if SpamBayes can effectively determine what I think is spam and what I don't, then why couldn't it be used to determine blog posts I want to read and those I don't if, given a big enough sample of both? ...
Published: November 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 651

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