RDFLib.net RDFLib is a Python library containing an RDF triple store and an RDF/XML parser/serializer. It is being developed by Daniel Krech.

O'Reilly Network: Building an Open Source J2EE Weblogger writeup of Roller Web, I've a funny feeling I've blogged before. Perhaps I really am losing it. Did you ever see the film Rollerball? Brilliant. diddle-dee, di di di di der diii...

RollerWeb - heh, a Tomcat based blog system I stumbled on by following a 'Google bomb' saying : Weblogger sucks. There's irony there somewhere...

Semantic Web Research Group "Parka is an inferencing database, built for use with the semantic web. It is currently undergoing revision to support RDF, but here are the sources as they stand ". Open license.

TAP semweb server (Apache-based) & client from Guha/McCool

eekim.com: Purple Purple is a small suite of quickly hacked tools designed to create HTML documents with "purple" numbers. These purple numbers are HTML anchors attached to every paragraph in a document, which allow you to link to these paragraphs. (looks like Perl again)

Arts - a system for creating quick knowledge bases from mail messages, Perl scripts, might be worth a nosey around...

To keep abreast of the 21st century Interesting, well-researched and thoughtful paper by Leonid Ototsky (translated from Russian) on systematically looking at the technological future, particularly in the longer term. It's largely from the practical viewpoint of a largish organisation (an ironworks), but includes in its analysis considerable reference to the semiotics involved. "Although the Web provides vast possibilities for consensus in the 'semantic plug-and-play components', but the ambitions and habits of various research groups and the existing infrastructure of social institutes may postpone their realizations."
Well worth a read for anyone looking at the big picture.

danny w/2 ayers or d w/2 ayers - ResearchIndex citation query - ego search at CiteSeer - woo-ee I'm listed twice! (behind a namesake who authored "Recognizing Human Actions in a Static Room").

Discourse in the RSS community has reached new lows - Dave Winer is now calling critics of his spurious RSS 2.0 spec "monsters". Of course they deserve it - one (Bill Kearney) dares to say things like "The greater shame is the users are going to suffer under the crushing weight of the dictator's ego.". Another (Ben Hammersley) committed the cardinal sin of not mentioning Winer in an (otherwise excellent) intro piece he wrote on RSS. The third of these spawn of satan (real name Morbus Iff, but he has adopted the black magic-inspired pseudonym "Kevin") has announced his plan to force-feed our noble master apricots until his stomach explodes, then feast on his liver (or something like that).

Yahoo! Groups : syndication Messages : Message 2629 of 3305 - how to generate RSS with Blogger blogs. I really need to read this...

RSS Tag usage stats

Syndic8.com - Site Statistics
RSS version stats -
50% 0.91
32% 0.92
14% 1.0
no others >2%

Offnews is a offline newsreader for RSS content and the semantic web. by Kevin Burton

PageRank: Google's Original Sin "The cure for cancer might already be on the web somewhere, but if it's on a new site, you won't find it."

FacetMap - Your Home for Faceted Classification there a 3-minute concept intro - the basic idea seems to be to have multiple parallel hierarchical taxonomies, so you can drill down a tree specific to your (errm...) facet.

XFML: shared, faceted metadata format for the web. interesting dialect of Topic Maps. I'm still not entirely sure what they mean by 'facets' though...

Blogroots Apparently "There are people who are working towards a Semantic Web based on RDF. They see RSS as a step on the path to the new Web they want. You start by syndicating news, then attach other information to the news, using that to seed databases that can be queried, according to Tim Berner-Lee's design."

HLink: Link recognition for the XHTML Family - will this fix the problems of xlink, or just create another set? Is it architectural forms by another name? Do I really have to rewrite those parsers *again*?

XML.com: What Are Topic Maps? [Sep. 11, 2002] nice intro from Lars Marius Garshol

RDF Schema Registry - at FORTH Institute

Audiophiles "As the MP3/Napster/file sharing debate continues British band Chumbawamba have entered the fray; the Leeds anarchists have produced a song which is available as a free download and samples opponents of file sharing. Metallica, Eminem, Dr Dre, The Beatles, Elvis and Madonna are among the artists who are appearing (without permission) on the song, which is a reaction to the hokum that opposing file sharing is somehow linked to artistic integrity."

Bush Iraq Evidence Lies - interesting notes on changing stories, makes me wonder how you could automatically watch for contradictions in data over time...