By danbri | Published:
2008-9-26
Just stumbled across this, after meeting Karen Coyle here at DC2008. A nice account of why we might care about linking information (and linking data):
Much like people, the real meaningfulness of information is how it interacts with others of its kind. Information that is alone or out of context is inert [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-9-22
A Pew Research Center survey released a few days ago found that only half of Americans correctly know that Mr. Obama is a Christian. Meanwhile, 13 percent of registered voters say that he is a Muslim, compared with 12 percent in June and 10 percent in March.
More ominously, a rising share — now 16 percent [...]
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