From Twitter in the last few minutes, a chaos of echo’d posts about army moves. Just a few excerpts here by copy/paste, mostly without the all-important timestamps. Without tools to trace reports to their source, to claims about their source from credible intermediaries, or evidence, this isn’t directly useful. Even grassroots journalists needs evidence. I [...]
Tag Archives: twitter
Twitter Iran RT chaos
Posted in Activism, Conspiracy Theory, FOAF, Politics, Project ideas, SKOS, The Web at War, ggg, openid, privacy Also tagged identica, iran, iranelection, journalism, tehran, witness 3 Comments
Be your own twitter: laconi.ca microblog platform and identi.ca
The laconi.ca microblogging platform is as open as you could hope for. That elusive trinity: open source; open standards; and open content.
The project is led by Evan Prodromou (evan) of Wikitravel fame, whose company just launched identi.ca, “an open microblogging service” built with Laconica. These are fast gaining feature-parity with twitter; yesterday we got a [...]
Posted in FOAF, RDF, Semantic Web, SocialWeb, coding, ggg, oauth, openid Also tagged identica, laconica, microblogging 4 Comments
Waving not Drowning? groups as buddylist filters
I’ve lately started writing up and prototyping around a use-case for the “Group” construct in FOAF and for medium-sized, partially private data aggregators like SparqlPress. I think we can do something interesting to deal with the social pressure and information load people are experiencing on sites like Flickr and Twitter.
Often people have rather large lists [...]
Posted in Essays, Image Description, SPARQL, Technology, ggg Also tagged facebook, filters, flickr, FOAF, groups, information overload, sparqlpress, xfn 5 Comments