Why the blog? Ray Ozzie (Groove) on public/private comms : "Mental exercise: how would you use eMail if your inbox was published on the Intranet?"

Yahoo! Groups : klogs "This is a group dedicated to the discussion of Weblogs for Knowledge Management and collaborative groupware within corporations and non-profit organizations."

Description Logics (That's considerate, the 2003 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2003) is to be held in Rome ;-)

Heh - there's a familiar entry on the reading list below Professional XML Meta Data �� Chapter 5: RDF Schema there's also Chapter 9: Meta Data Architectures online too. (I'm not sure who was behind these particular chapters, but I'm second from the left ;-)

Semantic Web PhD Course Spring 2002 - wow, Ernesto's blog (below) is a treasure house! I'd completely missed half of the things there, including this course site which has a good-looking reading list.

Blog de la Web Sem�ntica by Ernesto Krsulovic - brilliant! a Chilean (Spanish language) parallel!!!

Hypertext Links A Classification of Links According to Primary Function (thanks Seth).

2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, 20-23 October 2003

Call for Papers: Semantic Web Foundations and Application Technologies Nara, Japan. March 12th 2003.

Push Button Paradise Micah Dubinko definitely stays in the blogroll, having RDF visible (in a discussion re. HLink). Nice quote too : "Despite marketing, DRMP is a licensing technology, not a security technology"..."The DRMP system is based on the premise that unlicensed use of software or data should make computers stop working. You could also argue that bridges should be designed to fall down if someone is detected crossing without paying the toll."

Psybertron Knowledge Modelling WebLog heh, I'm glad I checked back here, a great quote from Kurzweil : "The genomic information about the brain is 12 million bytes of compressed data, 'smaller than Microsoft Word'."

EVHEAD Evan Williams' (of Pyra/Blogger fame). Interesting, but off-topic...

Erik's Weblog mostly good Java material, and I really like his minimal layout, but it's not really semweb...

Practical RDF -- The Book "...the online support site and discussion forum for the upcoming book "Practical RDF", authored by Shelley Powers..." (Unfortunately I'm going to have to drop Shelley's excellent Burningbird blog from the roll).

Out from the blogroll goes Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things - where else could you here about a whole-body photocopier?

Continuing the blog-tidy, I'm having a prune of the channels I've got blogrolling. All good stuff, but there are semweb-specific blogs popping up all over the place, so sadly it's bye bye Jon's Radio

Creating Applications with Mozilla, Chapter 10 - RDF, RDF Tools, and the Content Model. Online.

Seem like an appropriate time to blog the RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0 spec, along with the #rss-dev chump

AmphetaDesk is the excellent RSS reader that I used to test the NEW! feed - see the buttons over on the right somewhere. Now all I've got to sort out is the archives & making this page valid html...

Blogger FAQ blog

Java and J2EE Weblogs - with an open source tendency. Nice resource from Mike Cannon-Brookes.

The Browser will Rise Again - Paul Prescod "...the choice between Web features and desktop app features is entirely a false dichotomy. Using Web techniques, we can build a Universal Interface Virtual Machine..."

mttrackback - TrackBack Technical Specification strange mix of RSS 0.91 and RDF (embedded in HTML comments) involved...

XUL and XBones?

Memento Morty - a little novelty image-generator tool (that was nicely optimistic for me), but this I like :

The Rennaisance	The Web
Constant reminders of the fleetingness of life and the close hand of death.	Pictures of cats wearing fake reindeer antlers.

Serp - (jeesh, I'm forgetting to blog my own stuff)

What is it?

* A poke-around-in-the-box testing tool for Java
* A simple Python interpreter box

Suggestions for better name appreciated.

Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Data ModelEditors' Working Draft. Looks to be coming along nicely - interesting (new?) stuff about social interpretation.

Knowledge management technology paper by A. D. Marwick. This should give the approach :
Tacit to Tacit Tacit to Explicit
E-meetings Answering questions
Synchronous collaboration (chat) Annotation
Explicit to Tacit Explicit to Explicit
Visualization Text search
Browsable video/audio of presentations Document categorization

The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics - life is too short...

TRACKBACK manual"Movable Type's TrackBack system allows peer-to-peer communication and conversations between blogs...Using TrackBack, the other blogger can automatically send a ping to your blog, indicating that he has written an entry referencing your original post.". I really must get around to reading this...

Curiouser and curiouser! sounds like a job for RDF : "Your membership of a BlogPlex should be implied by posting something, anything. The semantic content of your posting defines the BlogPlex that you create (or joins it if it already exists) and new members of a BlogPlex can be automagically hooked up (based on the preferences of each user).

Russell Beattie Notebook - (the link love-in continues ;-) Russell gives this blog a nice mention, referring to a mail I sent him saying I was interested in his approach to stuff, his reply: "My approach is: 'Get it done any way possible'!

Procrastination here while I type this, of course. A little poignant in this particular case because one of the things I want to achieve with my project is a bridge over the disconnect between personal info sources/sinks such as email and blogs. Russell's building Wiki/blog etc tools which may well be useful for my project, either directly or through 'borrowing' his ideas (his code's open source) .

W3J: World Wide Web Journal more 1996/97 docs.

An old (1996?) Interview with Tim Berners-Lee "They may call it a home page, but it's more like the gnome in somebody's front yard than the home itself. People don't have the tools for using the Web for their homes, or for organizing their private lives; they don't really put their scrapbooks on the Web." - Hmm, the scrapbook angle is now just about getting covered by blogs, but there's certainly still a home/gnome dichotomy. "What is a Web year now, about three months?" - when was this interview again...

Joseki The Jena RDF Server

Jena toolkit the Java RDF API adds n3 reading & writing to its resume.

Slashdot | Constructing Accessible Web Sites book review. Looks as though it's largely aimed at folks who want to keep in line with US legal requirements, rather than accessibility for practical reasons, but still it's good to see something in this domain. From the review : "...every web developer needs to learn at least something about [accessibility], if only to use as ammunition in interviews." ;-)

Manywhere - Russell Beattie's open source Java projects : Manywhere Journal | MiniBlog | Simpleweb | Manywhere Agent.

John Wilkins - An Essay Toward a Real Character and a Philosophical Language contains the full text and original page images from an ontology and a language derived from that ontology dating from the 1600's!

Total Information Awareness (TIA) System - "The goal of the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program is to revolutionize the ability of the United States to detect, classify and identify foreign terrorists � and decipher their plans � and thereby enable the U.S. to take timely action to successfully preempt and defeat terrorist acts." I wonder what their system would do if it discovered that warmongering is terrorism.

ThoughtsOnThinking : Designing Out Loud... nice trees...

(ZDNet) News: Here's a cure for bandwidth blues call for open spectrum : "Bandwidth is just a parameter in an equation; it's not a naturally bounded resource."

This site was "Cool Blog of the Day" on Sunday according Search Engine Marketing Web Log. Thanks!

USC/ISI - DAML WebScripter Project- "WebScripter is a tool that enables ordinary users to easily and quickly assemble reports extracting and fusing information from multiple, heterogeneous DAMLized Web sources. "

Another Semantic Web Log : Willie's (aka Baoshi Yan).

What is a Semantic Web Application? - pretty nice definition/requirements, as part of the "Semantic Web Challenge" docs.

2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003)

Screenshot of Microsoft's deception - Niklas Gustavsson of SVG fame managed to get this. Ok, the use of models is common enough, but in this context it's hilarious!

Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign - nice demo (on Slashdot) of how a network of users can pick up on a (errrm) reality warp - Microsoft's confessor

stock model photo :

foaf-knows - cool SVG from JibberJim

phil ringnalda dot com: Redirecting RSS redirection - interesting comments too, which highlight conflicts between the non-RDF RSS approach and the RSS 1.0 approach.

Big Ball of Mud heh - I ref'd this in a post to xml-dev, in response to Dave Winer's apparently pro-'tag soup' comments (Dave's only just encountered the term, though Dan Connolly for one was using it as early as 1992). Anyhow, I hope Mr. Winer reads the page, as well as linking to it.

Dia links - GTK-based GNU diagramming tool

My Red Hat Linux 8.0 Frustrations - OSNews.com blogged to find it again - I recently tried Linux (Enlightenment WM) on a P166 (I think) with 32MB memory - things like KDE & OpenOffice were completely unusable, though Mozilla was ok once it had started up.

Everything Can be a Link with Mozilla's window.getSelection() Method and the W3C DOM Range API Brian Donovan. Nice idea, shame about the Mozilla requirement - MSIE's DOM events aren't quite up to it.