Semantic Web: Can Your Computer Read a Web Page Without Your Help? Soon it Might ResourceShelf (blog) Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web format, and the organization that keeps the standards of the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium, have recently been ...
We're not using the word "read" here the way I do when I say that Sean reads a Wikipedia page. Are we?
- Bill Anderson
from twhirl
ACM Announces Initiative for Long-Term Preservation of Content in Its Digital Library — Association for Computing Machinery - http://www.acm.org/press-r...
Louis Menand outlines the changes afoot with regard to graduate education (and education in general?) and notes the danger of losing academia's contributions to social criticism and reflection.
- Bill Anderson
Prof. Ray Pierrehumbert exposition of the arithmetic needed to think clearly about the role of CO2 and waste heat in global warming. "It's not hard."
- Bill Anderson
An interesting discussion of software design and working software development practices. Linus has some opinions about natural selection that he thinks apply very well to software evolution. Is he right?
- Bill Anderson
Greg, are you in Austin? We saw a great all-woman band at Antone's on Friday called the BlueBonnets. Kick ass rock and roll.
- Joe Bonner
Nope, I'm in Fort Worth now, but I lived in Austin about half my life. I need a roadtrip. I'll have to check out the BlueBonnets.
- Greg GuitarBuster
I agree--the Bonnets rocked it. Greg, I'm going back in March and would love your recommendations.
- dontgetcaught
Denise, I'm not sure what to recommend. I want to hang out at Book People and Waterloo Records. Eat at El Azteca and Hudson's on the Bend. Listen to the Belleville Outfit.
- Greg GuitarBuster
That'll do for starters, Greg...thanks!
- dontgetcaught
We're told that open access to research is inevitable, but it won't be easy to achieve. I believe the last part, the first part is an empirical question.
- Bill Anderson
Carl Malamud's critique of Lessig's "Against Transparency" article. Nice reference to a recent New Yorker article about scientific management. The ad hominem aspects of the comments are troubling.
- Bill Anderson
Carl Malamud's critique of Lessig's "Against Transparency" article. Nice reference to a recent New Yorker article about scientific management. The ad hominem aspects of the comments are troubling.
- Bill Anderson
One entry into umbel.org's set of referenced ontologies. [Copy editors sorely needed for a successful semantic web. Finding the right words crucial for providing easy to use vocabularies.]
- Bill Anderson