Tom Morris: 2008-04-05

2008.04.05

I am speaking soon at the Microformats vEvent organised by Frances Berriman and Drew McLellan. It's kind of strange, as it'll be me and Dan speaking. Frances puts it brilliantly on her blog - whatever wall exists between the RDF world and the microformats world needs to be torn down. The talk I'm giving will be on GRDDL, a technology which I think will maybe not demolish the wall completely but punch a fairly significant hole through it. I'll be using good old-fashioned HTML to show how you can basically create your own "semantic transformations", and then briefly showing how we could pull in some data through GRDDL and do something cool with it. 2008-04-05T15:30:32Z

I liked this blog article about the women's wrestling team at Oklahoma City University, but I must protest - winningest really is an abortion of a word. The New Oxford American Dictionary lists it, but it really is horrific. Insead, please substitute "most successful", "frequently victorious" or perhaps use a trope like the "mantlepiece being filled with tropies" or something. "Winningest" reminds me too much of that excellent British nineties coinage, "minging". Please stop it now. 2008-04-05T15:29:22Z

About to demo at Over the Air. Will blog properly later. 2008-04-05T14:19:22Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: East Sussex, England

Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom

AIM: tommorris
YIM: tom.morris

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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