Geo Services, Dashboard and Gazetteers

In Goodness gracious, great circles, Edd writes up the results of more cool Dashboard related hacking. So now you have another good reason for adding GeoURL tags to your 'blog. Edd is also looking for more geographic related services and data sets. I came across one a while back whilst doing some related research (enriching … Continue reading Geo Services, Dashboard and Gazetteers →

One Week to Go

Whilst winding down this sunny Friday evening (the red wine is a-breathin') I've made the mistake of visiting the Big Chill website to catch up with the latest news on the festival and line-up before next week. Big mistake as I'm now all excited at the prospect of seeing a whole slew of cool bands. … Continue reading One Week to Go →

XML-DEV and eclectic

For a long time now eclectic has been lying fallow. I've just been able to keep up to date with XML-DEV on a daily basis and keep it maintained the way I used to. A combination of factors including being much busier at work (now managing a team) and at home (now a father, and … Continue reading XML-DEV and eclectic →

FOAF and Privacy

Shelley Powers has been writing about FOAF this week, privacy issues in particular. Ben Hammersley has been having similar thoughts. This is all good. As I understand it one of the aims of FOAF and related vocabularies (FOAF has no 'built-in' notion of trust) is to help explore these kind of issues. Control over what … Continue reading FOAF and Privacy →

Busy, Busy

Apologies to anyone who has mailed me over the last week or so and is still waiting for a response. We've just gone through an application release here at work and so things have been extremely busy. Not had time to think about anything other than bug fixing. In case you're interested we've just moved … Continue reading Busy, Busy →

Wiki Refactoring

I took some time last night to start refactoring the FOAF Wiki. This was something we needed to do, but comments on rdfweb-dev from Marc Canter, suggesting that folk are struggling without decent FOAF documentation, prompted me to devote a bit more time to it this week. I'm pretty happy with the result as I've … Continue reading Wiki Refactoring →

MP3 GPS

Here's something I came across whilst looking for a Java API into WinAmp. Why was I looking for a such a beast? Well mainly because I'm a Java weenie and can't be bothered to dredge up the bits of C/C++ I know to write WinAmp plugins properly. The plugin I'm thinking about would be used … Continue reading MP3 GPS →

Ping FOAFnaut

Here's a simple bookmarklet that uses FOAF Autodiscovery to find a FOAF document linked to from the page you're currently viewing and then submits it to FOAFnaut. If FOAFnaut already knows this URL then the database will be cleared and the data reloaded, otherwise it will just load the new data. Just drag the link … Continue reading Ping FOAFnaut →

Thoughts on Markup Tools

Great post from Dorothea on requirements for good markup tools. I agree with everything she says, and follow a few of the habits she lists myself: I tend to write an article and then markup it up, unless its only a very very short piece; and always fill in my URLs after the fact. I … Continue reading Thoughts on Markup Tools →

My Life in RDF

I have this project idea at the back of my mind which I mentally refer to as "My Life in RDF". Rather than being an exciting diary of the trials and tribulations of a lone hacker, wrestling with semantic web technologies for fun and profit, you should read that title a bit more literally: the … Continue reading My Life in RDF →