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<body><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/03/26/microsoft-set-to-launch-semantic-web-light/&quot;&gt;David Peterson&lt;/a&gt; at SitePoint has a great blog post about Microsoft Research work into the Semantic Web - using Silverlight to visualise data from a new database that's a half-way house between a triplestore and a &lt;abbr title=&quot;Relational Database Management System&quot;&gt;RDBMS&lt;/abbr&gt;. It's not RDF (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://savas.parastatidis.name/2008/03/24/19a7fa4a-560d-47b4-bbea-9a22e9824bb8.aspx&quot;&gt;the comments&lt;/a&gt;), but it's not far off. The intended use case for this project is that of helping researchers keep track of 'stuff'. They certainly could do with &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;..." created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:16:35 GMT"/>
<outline text="Cultivating the garden" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:50:59 GMT"><outline text="Back in March 2006, I wrote a blog post called &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2006/03/14#When:08:25:45&quot;&gt;The Conversation Garden&lt;/a&gt;, asking whether or not anyone is going to do anything interesting with the humble message board. &lt;a href=&quot;http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2008/03/27/twitter-turning-things-upside-down/&quot;&gt;Hil over at Spirits Dancing&lt;/a&gt; points out that Twitter is the conversational marketplace that I described. Despite &lt;a href=&quot;http://facebook.com/&quot;&gt;Facebook's&lt;/a&gt; looming presence, I still think the Web has a lot going for it.&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:50:59 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:50:59 GMT"/><outline text="Despite Twitter and despite blogging reaching an apex (perhaps?), I still participate in a fair few message boards, and a curse-inducing number of mailing lists. There's still a significant signal:noise problem, and it's not going away. People still aren't thinking boldly enough about this kind of thing. While in the nineties, it was &quot;just install a message board&quot;, now it's become &quot;just install a blog&quot;. Big deal." created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:50:59 GMT"/></outline><outline text="POWDER Grouping gets Working Draft" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-powder-grouping-20080324/&quot;&gt;&lt;abbr title=&quot;Protocol for Web Description Resources&quot;&gt;POWDER&lt;/abbr&gt; Grouping&lt;/a&gt; has been released as a W3C Working Draft. What does it do then? It specifies a framework for describing patterns of &lt;abbr title=&quot;Internationalized Resource Identifiers&quot;&gt;IRI&lt;/abbr&gt;s (that's &lt;abbr title=&quot;Unique Resource Identifiers&quot;&gt;URI&lt;/abbr&gt;+UTF-8 for those of you who can't keep track of what the current verbiage is for them funny things you put in the bar in yer browser). Why would you want to do that? Well, you might want to say in a machine readable way things to the effect of:&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;span class=&quot;example&quot;&gt;All the pages on &lt;samp&gt;www.example.org/porn/&lt;/samp&gt; are pornographic.&lt;/span&gt;&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;span class=&quot;example&quot;&gt;All the pages on &lt;samp&gt;www.porn.com&lt;/samp&gt; are pornographic, except those in the &lt;samp&gt;/notporn&lt;/samp&gt; directory.&lt;/span&gt;&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;span class=&quot;example&quot;&gt;All the pages on &lt;samp&gt;www.twitter.com/tommorris/&lt;/samp&gt; are written by a person named Tom Morris who also has a homepage at &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/&quot;&gt;tommorris.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;abbr&gt;POWDER&lt;/abbr&gt; Grouping describes the formal semantics of a group of resources. Membership in that group is done through a variety of means. It can be through providing an explicit listing of &lt;abbr&gt;URI&lt;/abbr&gt;s or by providing a list of patterns which they all meet - for example, a regular expression or a simple string match (of the sort &quot;/notporn&quot;).&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="Once you describe a set of resources, you can then make declarations about that set - for instance, that they all contain a certain class of content, or that they are all made by one person - or whatever else it is you want to say about them.&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/><outline text="Like a lot of the current work going on in the W3C's Semantic Web workgroups, it seems at first glance well specified. Keep it up!" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:08:31 GMT"/></outline><outline text="Movable Type fails" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:27:37 GMT"><outline text="I tried to post the following comment on the BBC Internet blog attached to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/turning_japanese_staying_briti.html&quot;&gt;this entry by Ashley Highfield about Internet speeds&lt;/a&gt;:&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:27:37 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:27:37 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;blockquote&gt;Broadband 'speed' is not the only issue. The actual usable monthly download limit is also important. It matters very little to me if I can get 24 Mbps, if I can still only download 20Gb a month over it. If we are talking television, the difference between it taking fifteen minutes to download EastEnders and five is not important. But if you can only download (or - sorry - stream, since this is bbc.co.uk/blogs and we have to be politically correct for the rights holders) half the programmes you want to watch because you hit a monthly cap, that's the limiting factor, not the speed. Everything else that I might do - checking e-mail, browsing the web, SSHing into my servers, a few online games - are quite fine on 2Mb.&lt;br /&gt;We need to demand from our ISPs that they provide not only high-speed connections but high-quality connections, which includes the ability to use them without download limits.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:27:37 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:27:37 GMT"/><outline text="The Perl script (it's the BBC - what else?) that Movable Type uses to accept comments seems to not respond or something." created="Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:27:37 GMT"/></outline></body>
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