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Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
My URI:
http://iandavis.com/id/me
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nospam@iandavis.com
Twitter:
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Monthly Archives: May 2001
Dave’s Olive Branch
Well, there are signs of progress in the RSS world. Dave Winer has offered an olive branch to the RSS 1.0 group. The goal is to clear up confusion in what RSS means. I make this offer to show that … Continue reading
Long Distance WLAN
This piece is the first part of a series chronicling the construction of a 20 mile wireless lan by the O’Reilly network team: A Wireless Long Shot Now that we’ve achieved Ethernet-like speeds over a 5-mile wide valley, and simulated … Continue reading
Internet Alchemy Stolen
This has to be the strangest thing. Someone has stolen a copy of this site and has put it on a server being used for portscanning attacks. I was mailed earlier today by a sysadmin who asked if I knew … Continue reading
AltaVista Reprise
It’s nice to see the old AltaVista interface back. For a long time AV was my search engine of choice, but the past few years of excessive advertising and pushing of features most people have already really turned me off. … Continue reading
Making Revenue from Content Syndication
Is Content Syndication A Viable Revenue Stream? The other benefit of syndication, many analysts believe, is increased traffic. But Mardle cautions against using such metrics. “We have seen the idiocy of “quickly building traffic” as a business objective. That is … Continue reading
Figby
Amusingly I found the above article while visiting Figby a news aggregation site. The article appeared in the right hand column three times from three different sources which just underlines the importance of the following excerpt: “The syndication method is … Continue reading
Perl 6 – Apocalypse 2
Larry Wall has published the second of his Perl 6 apocalypse articles. With this article we start to get an inkling into just how different Perl is going to be next time round… …Perl programmers must learn to write @foo[1] … Continue reading
Schematron Article
Leigh Dodds has published his new Schematron paper from XSLT UK – Schematron: validating XML using XSLT
Napster Interview
One person’s nightmare interview as Napster: One friend of ours told me about a recent experience he had at Napster. They were apparently hiring QA people to “develop automation” and he thought, yeah, I can do that. Talked to a … Continue reading
