Just had a look at Dave Winer's offering for the day, and there's a big chunk devoted to slagging off open-source 'zealots'. Comes across as being a little paranoid IMHO. I'm building a closed-source system and I wanted to use the best available components for my system, and found them as open-source. I'm planning on releasing various component parts back to the open-source 'community' - I don't think there's any conflict at all.

Current top Dave at Google, and the Dave I'd expect to be top.

PS. Today DW appears to be maintaining a more balanced approach - I'm tempted reread both posts and try and isolate the contradictions, but life's too short...

RDF: Rudolf/SquishQL/Inkling Query instructions - some really nice demos.

PGP Encrypting FOAF Files this *is* useful...

Table of Contents for FCSM Papers some interesting bits on metadata here, including a search engine from the US DoD ("Security Screening and Knowledge Management in the Department of Defense ").

Home of the BOID "..an architecture for Beliefs, Obligations, Intentions and Desires. I contain incremental loops to consider all effects of actions before I commit to them, and mechanisms to resolve conflicts between the outputs of my four components. I can have different personalities, e.g. realistic, stable, social or selfish. These agent types correspond to specific types of conflict resolution embedded in my architecture.
I have two parents. My father is one of Craig Reynolds generic flocking creatures, and my mother is a BDI system. If my feedback loops are not used, then I perform stimulus-response behavior like my father, but if I use my feedback loops then I deliberate like my mother.
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heheheh - current Hot or Not Rating : 2.2! My other blog's currently at 3.3. How low can I go? (don't mention that Jack Russell...) yes, you've heard it before (down, down...)

Just got a mail from Perry Hunchak suggesting reciprocal links - with a domain name like americanevil.com how could I resist? Turns out he's a web/Java geek, so there is at least a little relevance...

DataModel.Org Home Page DBMS stuff

Brad Fish's Scripting Language Howto has Java datalog parser as example code

Mike Dean's Home Page for future ref - the DAML stuff.

Also the W3C Web Ontology (WebOnt) Working Group have published three working drafts : Feature Synopsis, Abstract Syntax, and Language Reference. Gonna be a hard night for the printer. Which reminds me, what's the difference between a short-sighted marksman and a constipated owl?

Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios - there's an awful lot of material here, more SOAP than Pear's, and what's more it's got nice diagrams...

RDF in HTML: Approaches - Sean Palmer's excellent doc.

XML/XSL Portal - Chris Bayes. Not just the same old material again, for example his dom2dom is a script to allow the dom as seen by the browser to talk to the dom as seen by Adobe's SVG viewer. Lots of little gems!

Jeesh! What the world needs now is good user interfaces!!
The blogger interface is fine & dandy for adding quick notes, but trying to do anything with the templates is horrible - I've just wasted half an hour trying to add the 'hot or not' widget somewhere nice. I really can't be bothered pulling the template code out into a separate editor, not that it would help much - their tags aren't xml so validation wouldn't come easy.
I'm just in the process of setting up some space on a servlet capable host, so with a bit of luck I'll have a bit more control in the near future...

Ftrain.com: August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web - great piece!

Blogmapper locating blogs using RSS+RDF, currently only San Francisco (US) area. Language described at RDFMap

RDF Site Summary 1.0: SRDF (Simple RDF) - a way of separating (simple) RSS and RDF