Archive for October, 2004

The Web’s Unique Selling Point

Friday, October 29th, 2004

Danny Ayers thinks about what hisorians and aliens will find unique about the Web and suggests: The Web is the first artifact to be constructed collectively by all humans. This is true (insert disclaimer about all here) and indeed a first, but it’s not why the Web is great. After all, we could have built a collective […]

Guus Schreiber on Semantic Web best practices

Wednesday, October 13th, 2004

Today I attended a talk by Guus Schreiber, co-chair of the W3C’s Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group, at Berliner XML-Tage 2004. Some choice quotes: On good vs. bad ontologies: “Good ontologies are used in applications. They represent some form of consensus in a community.” “Creating my own ontology is a misappropriation of the term. […]

Well, I have a blog now

Saturday, October 2nd, 2004

Well, I have a blog now. Great. Wanted to have one for ages. The hard part, of course, will be figuring out what to actually write about in here. Below, some introductory information about this future fascinating piece of online literature. The purpose: Rant. Braindump. Improve my written English. The subject: Technology. Web development. Semantic Web. Mac geekery. The […]

Testing. One. Two.

Saturday, October 2nd, 2004

So, does this work?

Hello world!

Saturday, October 2nd, 2004

Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!