John Peel and Orson Welles

Slightly random posting this one. I was listening to the excellent John Peel last week, enjoying his usual eclectic mix of tunes, when he chose to play a 7inch recording of Orson Welles in a studio recording a voice-over for peas. Now I'm sure everyone else has already heard it but it was the first … Continue reading John Peel and Orson Welles →

Contamination Zone

I'm currently down with this flu that seems to be doing the rounds at the moment, which is a shame as there have been some interesting responses to my "When to use RDF?" question. Look at the comments and trackbacks for input from Dan Brickley, Shelley and Dorothea. I'm just hoping it isn't going to … Continue reading Contamination Zone →

When to use RDF?

I came across RDF vs XML Illustrated via both Dave Beckett's Journal and the RDF IG IRC Scratchpad today. And its brought forward a question I've been meaning to ask for a couple of weeks now. Take a look at the bottom right of the diagram (e.g. the JPEG version it says: Some projects are … Continue reading When to use RDF? →

Link Droppers

I'm interested in building a list of "Link Dropper" sites and would welcome suggestions if you have any. What do I mean by a Link Dropper? Basically a site that will drop some data into your existing webpage using a scripting language, e.g. Javascript or PHP. My canonical example is the Meerkat Javascript Source flavour … Continue reading Link Droppers →

User-Centred Linking

There's usually more than one way to get something on the net. There are dozens of online bookstores, search engines, new sites, document repositories, etc, etc. And we all have different preferences. Even for sites like Google and Amazon there is room for choice, e.g. different Google mirrors or regional Amazon sites. Yet when we … Continue reading User-Centred Linking →

Schematron and Architectural Forms

Rick Jelliffe has been working on Schematron once more, showing how to add support for variables and an implementation of the "abstract patterns" concept which was apparently the central idea behind Schematron's original design. The idea is that there are basic patterns, e.g. head/body, table/row/cells that are common to many different markup vocabularies. The individual … Continue reading Schematron and Architectural Forms →

Semantic Blogging: A Day Out

Yesterday was one of those rare occasions when I get to unshackle myself from my desk here at Ingenta and get out into the Real World and meet Real People. Yesterday's trip was to HP Labs in Bristol where I got the opportunity to meet with Steve Cayzer and Paul Shabajee about the Semantic Blogging … Continue reading Semantic Blogging: A Day Out →

Real World Annotations

Courtesy of Danny Ayers I came across this blog entry from Russell Beattie: Real World Annotations: Manywhere Places. I've always liked this idea, and have repeatedly suggested it to friends and colleagues as a "cool thing" to watch out for. (Actually I think it first came up during one of those "Lets Start a dotcom" … Continue reading Real World Annotations →

More Spooky-ness

I did some more hacking on Spooky last night and ended up splitting the implementation up into a core stylesheet and individual implementations that further refine the project creation. There's only support for simple Java projects at present, but I'll add some more. This'll make life easier for me, if no-one else. I tend to … Continue reading More Spooky-ness →

FTrain to use Cocoon?

Whilst dropping in on the recently revamped Cocoon Wiki, I noticed that Paul Ford has added a page there, noting that he's going to try, "over the next year, to implement Ftrain.com in Cocoon". Should be interesting to watch. Ftrain is one of my favourite sites. Having implemented a (very) little language for working with … Continue reading FTrain to use Cocoon? →