Tom Morris



2007.02.08

You know that saying, "you wait all day for a bus and three come at once?" Ahem. On February the 21st, there's three geek events going on in the evening. Wiki Wednesday, the Geek Dinner and the Girl Geek Dinner. We're hosting a whole lot of people flying over for the Future of Web Apps conference, and we give them three events on one day! Smile and a wink 2007-02-08T20:05:23ZUntitled entry permalink

The most useful plugin for QuickTime has to be this LAME MP3 encoder. Makes podcasting workflows a lot more efficient. 2007-02-08T19:57:49ZUntitled entry permalink

Another superb link I saw recently was this guide to doing GTD with Remember the Milk (via Lifehacker). I'm an RTM addict, although I haven't quite gotten on to the GTD game yet. I remember that Kevin Marks was saying a while back that we ought to set up a porn site called GettingThingsUndone. 2007-02-08T19:36:08ZUntitled entry permalink

An old post that I'd been meaning to make - Elektrischer Reporter.de has a great interview with Marc Canter from Le Web (via, not surprsingly, Marc himself). 2007-02-08T19:21:38ZUntitled entry permalink

Wow, another thing I've missed from the Mac platform is Interarchy. It's now at version 8.5 and they've added loads of really cool functions including a way to browse an FTP server and then drop to SSH for that folder. Neeeeat! Interarchy really is the best FTP client I've ever used. And I've used a lot in the last decade or so. 2007-02-08T14:26:50ZUntitled entry permalink

WTF? Skype looks at BIOS and motherboard serial numbers. This blogger reckons it's for granular login management. 2007-02-08T14:24:20ZUntitled entry permalink

Wow, bet you didn't know about these secret chatroom abbreviations. Argh! The Internet will eat our children! 2007-02-08T14:11:49ZUntitled entry permalink

Want some free MP3s from Microsoft? Here's what you need to do. If there's anything good here, I'll plop it on my iPod. Thanks Bill. 2007-02-08T14:10:52ZUntitled entry permalink

At risk of cursing myself to Apple hell again, Scoble has to be linked to again. Here's what he says about Steve Jobs' recent quasi-blog: "Meanwhile we all forget that the iPhone isn¹t open to third-party developers and that the iPod has near-monopoly-status marketshare already. 2007-02-08T14:07:56ZUntitled entry permalink

Here is an instance of a rights-holder who wants DRM removed from his content. He also happens to be a cool anti-propagandist. Smile and a wink 2007-02-08T13:59:57ZUntitled entry permalink

Ophelia Benson interview. Good stuff. 2007-02-08T13:38:25ZUntitled entry permalink

Two cool bits of anti-propaganda, an 'ID' approach to the periodic table and a cool video. No explanation required. 2007-02-08T13:34:18ZUntitled entry permalink

If you are in the United States, sign up for this free wi-fi router. I got a free Fonera wi-fi router a while back. It's pretty neat, although if you use a Macintosh you need to hack it in order to use it. Why? Because the Macintosh doesn't support WPA/WPA-2 Mixed mode. 2007-02-08T13:29:17ZUntitled entry permalink

John Tropea has a review of FeedCycle, a service which I linked to back in November. Now that I can use one machine rather than three, I might be able to start using it properly. 2007-02-08T13:25:39ZUntitled entry permalink

Scoble is at LIFT and is in awe of Thomas Hawk's Leica. Aww. We had a Leica a while back. They're great. 2007-02-08T13:24:19ZUntitled entry permalink

I'm back, kids! 2007-02-08T13:10:17ZTitled entry permalink

My Macintosh has been repaired. I can now blog properly again with the OPML Editor. There certainly is a downside to using a desktop blogging application - which is when your desktop stops working, your blog stops running too. Smile and a wink

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Movie ratings and semantics 2007-02-08T23:27:38ZTitled entry permalink

Being an XML/RDF/SemWeb/syndication/open data geek ain't easy. Every problem you see has a solution that usually involves RDF and/or XML. Surely, movie ratings would be one of these. When I say "suitable for kids", I generally mean something quite different from when Focus on the Family say it. That's to say, I don't start gushing with rage when two people kiss without getting married for three years first.

I'm imagining that if we had decent XML/RDF representations of ratings, along with movie listings, you could get make a 'heat map' of where one finds the most kid-friendly cinemas. I'd be interested to see what steps people are making towards a web of ratings. If IMDB put out XML data, we'd be able to move a lot further towards a Semantic Movie Web.

This kind of thing is why hReview won't scale. It's why we need namespaces and ontologies.

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Tom Morris
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

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