Michael Sparks in the BBC Backstage permathread on DRM:
However any arguments based on open standards do need to take facts into account though. Such as this one: The BBC is currently required by the rights holders to use DRM.
Tell me how you can have a DRM system that’s completely free software, and I’ll readily [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Chocolate Teapot
Posted in RDF, Technology, joost 4 Comments
Shadows on the Web
This is a quick note, inspired by the recent burst of posts passing through Planet RDF about RDF, WebArch and a second “shadow” Web. Actually it’s not about that thread at all, except to note that Ian Davis asks just the right kind of questions when thinking about the WebArch claim that the Web ships [...]
Posted in RDF, Semantic Web 1 Comment
HTML Imagemap authoring tool for MacOSX?
I’ve searched around in vain for one. I want to annotate my FOAF spec diagram with mouseover text and links into the documentation. Most of the tools I find are a decade or more old, or pay-to-play. I remember the Gimp image editor can do imagemaps, but it crashes on startup on my MacBook. I [...]
Posted in FOAF, Image Description, RDF, Technology 6 Comments
Spam poetry
This just arrived in my mailbox, sneaking past my spam filters. While it advertises the most horrible spamsite, the words are strangely hypnotic…
Hei,
Inncrease your S.[E].X.U.AL health!
Sane, recalled me from these fantastic speculations. Miss
believer, please tell me in your own words do without them.
footnote: ‘a description of nova friar, sent an arrow after
the flying sheriff, of [...]
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planetplanet foafrolls
The PlanetPlanet feed reader (and the Venus variant) exposes its blogroll via RDF/FOAF, typically at “/foafroll.xml” URIs. I ran through the list of Planet installations from the main site, and found the following, which might be interesting for experimentation, crawling, whitelist work etc. Or you could just make a giant feedlist and install Venus yourself, [...]
Posted in FOAF, RDF, RSS/Atom, Semantic Web, Technology 1 Comment
FOAF diagram (day 2)
FOAF diagram (day 2)
Originally uploaded by danbri
Another revision, after feedback from Ivan.
The original had “Thing” in italics (a convention I tried before adding in doap: dc: and sioc: references), to indicate it was from another namespace. I’ve now made that heritage explicit (although I suspect it might confuse, the idea is [...]
Posted in FOAF, Image Description, Jabber/XMPP, RDF, Semantic Web, Technology, Web Technology 2 Comments
FOAF spec diagram
experimental foafspec diagram
Originally uploaded by danbri
I’ve been trying to capture the core terms of FOAF in a diagram. Here’s version two.
Notes: there are a few terms I’ve missed out, to avoid massive clutter: workInfoHomepage, geekcode, myersBriggs, currentProject, pastProject, dnaChecksum, membershipClass, sha1, fundedBy, theme, Online*XyzAccount, logo, phone. These are all underspecified, underused, [...]
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