By joe10 | October 7, 2007
So I decided that a new website is in order. Why? Well, the current most recent version of my site was made in 2003, and a lot’s changed since then.
First off, I’m not in the business of providing custom solutions anymore: that site really showed the range of services I had been providing my clients for over a decade and was intended to bring in new clients. As I’m currently employed I’m not really looking for clients, and my focus has narrowed from being a full service integrator to living up at the “Fuzzy Front End” of the development practice, where I start at the strategic planning point and pretty much back off once concepts have been approved.
From the smoking cauldrons in Arlington comes an effort to track every electronic, and some not so electronic, bit of data surrounding a persons life. The electronic data mesh this conceives would be capable of making incredible connections between information, the needs for which are being questioned by government and private agencies alike…
Wired News: A Spy Machine of DARPA’s Dreams
Here is a list of links which explain, in increasing levels of sophistication, an initiative which is attempting to make sense of the glut of information on the web.
The plan is to make it so computer programs can make logical assumptions and relationships between resources on the Web based on the semantics of their content. It is referred to as the Semantic Web.
The links that follow provide a gentle, if not brief, introduction to this initiative.
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Usability News: CHI 2003 Feature: Testing… 1 2 3 4 5 … Testing…
The validity of Usability Testing, thought by many to be infallible at detecting a products defects, is called into question by industry leaders.
In a panel discussion at CHI2003 it was discussed whether a) the majority of defects in an application are found in the first 5 subjects as espoused by many Usability pundits, and 2) Does the same test run with a different sample reveal the same defects. The answer seems to be no.
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By joe10 | April 23, 2003
from Ben on RDFWeb list
In an upcoming spin off on Movable Type, the folks at Six Apart are including support and networking of Friend of a Friend files from their upcoming product TypePad. It will be exciting to see where they go with this service. If they just link between their hosted page it will be little better than other closed systems such as Ryze and the like. the power of FOAF is to reach far and wide and find tangential relationships among would be relations. How they implement the network and how preemptive they are in it’s inter and intra communications will be key to it’s success.
And besides feeling that it’s probably time to find another Blogging software (again), it is cool to see the FOAF format being implemented into a larger product.
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Battle of the blog builders
Eric Miller is the World Wide Web Consortium’s Activity Lead on the Semantic Web Initiative. He was previously a Senior Research Scientist for OCLC, as well as co-founder and Associate Director of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
…”The Semantic Web is all about data integration, and much richer ways of organizing things based on contextual relationships.”…
NewBreed Librarian ::: Interview ::: August 2002
Only in the SNA category because RDF seems an important vehicle for conecting related information. A good place to start for the begining technical explorer.
RDF Tutorial – Part I: basic syntax and containers
My rekindled interest in the Semantic Web has inspired me to fish out resources to put together a map of where things are going, and this is one important way point.
Tim talks of many things in this interview, and in hearing his voice one can’t help but to be inspired by his intellect, his drive and his passion. I find the forward looking trends in this hour long interview.
NPR : Tim Berners-Lee
This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. Now, for many, this appears to be approaching an end. What are the scientists to do next?
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
I was recently referred to these folks by a photographer friend, Jules Greenberg, who says they do nice work. I just thought they might be a good resource for my next promo piece. Maybe you would too…
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