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Hacking O’Reilly RDFa

I recently learned from Ivan Herman’s blog that O’Reilly has begun publishing RDFa in their online catalog of books. So if you go and install the RDFa Highlight bookmarklet and then visit a page like this and click on the bookmarklet you’ll see something like:

Those red boxes you see are graphical depictions of where metadata [...]

Think of Things

Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

The Complete Tales of [...]

sicp reading

If you’ve ever harbored any interest in reading (or re-reading)

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miscellaneous talk

If you are reading Everything is Miscellaneous like me then you might be interested in watching a talk David Weinberger did a few days ago at Google.
I only wish I had more time to ingest all the good content that comes in through the GoogleTech Talks feed.

John Price-Wilkin Interview

In case you missed it in your overstuffed RSS reader Jon Udell recently interviewed John Price-Wilkin who is coordinating the University of Michigan’s joint digitization project with Google.
The interview covers interesting bits of history about the University of Michigan Digital Library,
Making of America, JSTOR (didn’t realize there was a book), and of course the [...]

>js

So I’ve been dabbling with that four letter word at $work to create a hierarchical journal/volume/issue/article browser. Le rails and scriptaculous make it pretty easy indeed.
I figured I’d be a good developer and try to understand what’s actually going on behind the scenes, so I picked up a copy of Ajax in Action [Illustrated] [...]

Standard

When I find the time I’m enjoying reading The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks which (so far) details a many-species galactic civilization in 4034 AD. The milieu includes an amorphous ancient species known as the Dwellers who live for millions of years on gas giant planets (like Jupiter) and have very, very long memories…and the [...]