Tom Morris: 2008-02-09

2008.02.09

iPlayer on Mac by end of 2008 says the Beeb. Meh. We've got all the core functionality already on this thing called the Internet, and it has the advantage of no DRM. 2008-02-09T11:02:59Z

BBC News have an article on OpenID, which they seem to think is called "Open ID". 2008-02-09T10:54:17Z

Slashdot is reporting that the EU is keeping the pressure up on Microsoft after it's stunt with the OOXML format and their attempts to turn it into a standard. 2008-02-09T10:40:25Z

Techdirt reports on a rather unfortunate breach of freedom of speech. Apparently, citizens discussing local council business on a forum is not allowed any more. 2008-02-09T10:38:25Z

Republican candidate Ron Paul is 'scaling down' his campaign but not quitting. 2008-02-09T10:24:36Z

danbri points to Skype's slightly fluffy RDF implementation. RDF is not hard to get right so long as you grok it. The first step in grokking RDF is to realise it is not XML even though it occasionally looks like XML. Go read this. Anyway, good on Skype for trying. If they reified it or gave it some proper URIs and put time-stamps on there, it'd be a really useful resource for historical data analysis (ie. you could poll a person you are interested in every five minutes, store the results in a triple store and query it). 2008-02-09T10:19:04Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: Essex, England

Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom

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I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

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.

I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.

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