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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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http://iandavis.com/id/me
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Monthly Archives: February 2003
Unprofessional Attitudes
This is completely unjustified and unprofessional: Now, Kevin [Burton] is not one of my favorite people. I’ve had repeated run-ins with him that have convinced me that he’s the most dangerous kind of idiot: the stupidity made coherent kind. FWIW, … Continue reading
New RDDL Proposal
Tim Bray and Jonathan Borden have come up with a simpler version of RDDL as part of the W3C TAG‘s work in this area. The proposal is very simple: just add two new attributes rddl:nature and rddl:purpose to the standard … Continue reading
FOAF Autodiscovery
On the rss-dev list we’ve been looking at autodiscovery of rss and foaf using the link tag, specifically by extending the mime-type information. Another way to do it is to use a different ‘rel’ value. For RSS we currently use … Continue reading
Google Buys Pyra
I’m still don’t know what to think of this, but whatever, it’s going to mark some big changes in weblog-land. I hope the original blogger team (Meg, pb, Matt, and jack) get something back for the pain they went through…
Update
I’ve been pretty busy recently, however I’ve updated my list of RSS aggregators that support conditional GETs. Other than that I’ve been working intermittently on Semantic Planet.
