Image Annotator
This is a beautiful use of Javascript, RDF and XSLT to create a system that annotates images. Go to the image link to see the final result first. Take a look at the page source; you'll see that it is written in RDF, and specifically, a combination of three schemas: Dublin Core, FOAF and an Image schema. Now go to the image annotator itself to see how the RDF file was generated. Follow the instructions on the page and generate your own RDF. More...
Averages and Emergence
Some highly speculative thoughts about the creation of knowledge through synchronous recognition of natural patterns by a group of observers. By Stephen Downes, Learning Circuits Blog, January 18, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...
Yahoo to acquire Six Apart?
This is just speculation, nothing more. But it would seem to be a natural; Yahoo doesn't have a blogging tool (while both Microsoft and Google do). Six Apart now also brings into the mix the large LiveJournal community, which could be integrated into Yahoo's own family of communities. More...
Why P2P File Sharing Is Good: The P2P Manifesto
Robin Good links to and summarizes a pretty good manifesto on P2P (person-to-person) file sharing. The author's premise is that P2P is inevitable, that content owners cannot prevent people from sharing files on it, and that it is better for content owners in the long run (but they'll have to adapt their business plans). More...
WordPress Multi User (WMU)
A long-standing complaint about the use of WordPress, the free and open source blogging software, in an academic environment is that no multi-user version was available. With the launch of WordPress MU, this is no longer true. More...
The Music of Titan
To wrap up the day's links on a lighter note, this is the world's first piece of music recorded using sounds from Saturn's moon (it also holds the record for the piece of music with the most distantly separated sound sources). More...
RIT press to be on-demand
Rochester Institute of Technology's Cary Graphic Arts Press has signed a deal with Lulu.com to print the Institute's publication on an on-demand basis rather than as a standard press run. The plan eliminates the risk inherent with academic publishing: returns of unpurchased stock. More...
Shoeless and Bark Online Project Blog
Jennifer Wagner wrote in EdTech today, "I have never yet had a blog which was not compromised by someone posting inappropriate and harmful information which then becomes available to my students and participants." I know how that feels; I cleaned out more detritus from my own website this weekend. More...
Redland RDF Language Bindings
This has been around for a while, though the Perl implementation appears to be only a couple of months old. Redland is a set of free software packages that provide support for the Resource Description Framework (RDF). It's written in C, but there are bindings to Perl, Python, PHP and more. More...
rel="nofollow"
The rumour floating through the either is that Google are soon to announce that they won't be calculating PageRank for links with a rel="nofollow" attribute. More...
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