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Henry Story considers design alternatives for a FOAF-enabled personal address book that works as a desktop application. How will it publish the users’ FOAF profile to the Web? The first scenario considered by Henry is an individual who wants to publish to her own webspace. Here, in my eyes, FTP is king. Henry is right when […]

Ze Frank explains the art of procrastination. Procrastinating may seem easy, but you have to practice a bit before you become good at it. … Beginning procrastinators should start with small, solvable tasks that are related to, but not identical to the thing that’s being put off … If you get very good at […]

Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Music The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all […]

Here at our group we spend a lot of time preaching the benefits of dereferenceable URIs. We often want to know if a certain URI supports all the fancy HTTP tricks that are the cornerstones of RDF publishing best practices, like 303 redirects and content negotiation. My tool of choice for this is cURL, a command-line […]

This excellent (in content and style) short video by Michael Wesch is making the rounds. It perfectly captures the essence of the Web at its state circa 2007. I’d love to see this extended with another 30 seconds devoted to RDF. Or maybe not, because RDF on the Web is still more a vision than a […]

Free software community site Advogato now generates FOAF profiles for all users, thanks to work by Steve Rainwater.