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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.
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Monthly Archives: January 2003
Conclave
What is Conclave? Good question, it’s hard to label since it’s not like anything I’ve seen before. It’s a wiki married with topic maps with a dash of weblog in there somewhere. Each page is a topic that forms typed … Continue reading
XHTML 2.0 is not HTML
Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with the voice of reason: My hope is that W3C will change the name of XHTML 2 to indicate that it is a different (and alternative) markup language, not a dead end for the XHTML we currently … Continue reading
Java, Who Needs It?
Is it just me that thinks Java support in web browsers has had its day? Opera 7.0b2 for Windows, English (US) version Choose one option: * With Java 12.6 MB * Without Java 3.2 MB
Blogrolls
David Galbraith is cooking something up with blogrolls and bios: So here is the deal, if you email me a blogroll entry in this format I will add you to my blogroll.
Limited Liability Partnerships
Limited Liability Partnerships are a new type of business entity in the UK – they are classed as partnerships for tax reasons, but the partners can limit their liability. In contrast to a limited company the LLP doesn’t have directors, … Continue reading
Startup Promoting Moblogs
The Register:A Dublin-based start-up is to offer software to mobile operators that will enable mobile phone users to create and maintain Weblogs or “blogs” using only their phones.
RDF Templates Draft 1
This is something I’ve been ruminating on for a few weeks and finally found time to write up: RDF Templates. The idea comes from a simple desire: what if there was a way to apply XSLT to an RDF document … Continue reading
Discontinued Channels Success
Back in November I put out a plea for aggregators to stop polling for discontinued scraped RSS channels. I coupled this with an Apache redirection to a custom RSS channel containing a single item with a discontinued message. The url … Continue reading
Comments Off
I haven’t been following the various discussions about allowing comments on weblogs (see BurningBird for some thoughts on this) but I’ve decided, yet again, that it’s time to ditch them in favour of something better. I’ve never been a user … Continue reading
David Galbraith’s Predictions for 2003
David Galbraith makes some insightful predictions for 2003…
