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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
Email Me:
nospam@iandavis.com
Twitter:
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Monthly Archives: September 2002
RollerWeblogger
David Johnson, developer of the Roller web app is having problems over his domain name: Erin Clerico and the folks over at Weblogger.COM are upset about the name RollerWeblogger and have asked me to change it. Now, I don’t think … Continue reading
Exploring RDF using RSS
I stumbled across this nice set of examples of using RDF and Dublin Core in RSS today. The author carefully shows how the use of Dublin Core elements and qualifiers to structure the information improves the machine readability of the … Continue reading
Updates to myRSS
I’ve made two new changes to myRSS. The first is that the channels are now categorized where possible using the Open Directory classification scheme. The second is the launch of the sponsorship scheme whereby users can sponsor enhanced features of … Continue reading
Hot or Not?
Just noticed that the venerable Hot or Not is now rating blogs: Is my Blog HOT or NOT?
FOAF in RSS
Phil Ringnalda is experimenting with FOAF in RSS as part of his wider RDF experiment.
Blogging Network
At first sight sharing subscription money between bloggers is an idea that might just work: [L]et’s use the Disneyland approach: “entrance to the park costs money, and all the rides are free.” We’ll pay one price for unlimited access to all … Continue reading
Dave Winer’s RSS
Dave Winer is striding forward with his latest version of RSS (the RSS Basic branch) previously called RSS 0.94. now controversially called RSS 2.0. As usual Dave progresses in his own way, without community discussion or support. There is some … Continue reading
The StringBuffer Myth
Erik C. Thauvin: In most simple string-concatenation cases, the compiler will automatically convert a series of operations on Strings into a series of StringBuffer operations, and then pop the result back into a String
10 choices that were critical to the Net’s success
Dan Gillmor: How did technologists, government officials and a host of other early players turn something with no obvious business model into a system that has become so intrinsic to the new century? Decentralization was the key, linking together existing … Continue reading
Weblogs and Wikis
Blogging Roller: I think every Wiki should have a weblog like front-end, it draws you in and helps to build the community spirit of the site. But, should every weblog have an integrated Wiki?
