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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: March 2004
Coin Operated WiFi
I think this is a revolutionary idea: a coin operated access point. Whoever thought this up is a genius. Forget having to have a contract with 5 different service providers, just put 2 quid in the slot and everyone in … Continue reading
Clay Shirky on RELATIONSHIP
Clay Shirky has fired a rocket at the relationship vocabulary. Here’s my polite response. There are a number of themes in Clay’s post. The primary theme appears to be one of completeness: Clay’s thesis is that the vocabulary is incomplete … Continue reading
The Nucleus of Atom
I’ve carefully stayed away from the Atom discussions for several reasons. Most of these are around the inaccessibility of the original discussions which required permanent connectivity to participate. I’m also quite happy with RSS which meets my needs right now. … Continue reading
Relationship Schema Updated
Eric Vitiello’s relationship schema has a new home at http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/ Eric and I have been working together over the last few weeks to update this popular schema. We’ve fixed some issues and expanded the vocabulary to incorporate many terms in … Continue reading
Squeezebox
I’m looking at buying something like a Squeezebox as a replacement for having CDs lying all over the place. Is there anything else that’s similar out there that I can compare this with? Update: I got the squeezebox and it’s … Continue reading
The Nature Of Wiki Links
The number one feature request in Pepys is arbitrary links in content. I’ve been working on this for a little while and it’s made me think quite deeply about the nature of the links in a Wiki. Currently Pepys highlights … Continue reading
Spam Training Update
It’s been a few days since I implemented the SpamAssassin training and I can report that the experiment was a complete success. In fact I noticed a difference after the first training batch. Spam is back to manageable levels once … Continue reading
