01.14.07
Posted in Uncategorized, Shopping, Tips at 12:57 pm by Todd
I like shopping on amazon — they’ve got a great selection and they’re super-reliable. But I am suspicious at how often my checkout tally comes out just below $25, which is the point at which their free shipping kicks in.
Fear not! There’s a site that can help you find items on Amazon that cost just those few pennies you need to bump your order over the limit. I’ve used this a few times before, and it works fine. I do feel guilty about tossing out the bit of garbage that I have to buy to qualify for free shipping, but what’s a guy to do? If there were some way of having them add a dollar to my order that they would then give to a charitable cause, I’d be all over that. Alas, they don’t appear to be that enlightened yet.
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06.30.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:23 pm by Todd
Robert X. Cringeley writes about Web 2.0, focusing on the ideas of metacontent, distributed authorship, and aggregation. Too bad he doesn’t mention microformats, especially when he refers to
“the Tower of Babel effect in which every metadata tagger can use his or her own tagging system, none of which are necessarily readable by the others”, exactly the sort of problem that Micoformats aim to solve.
Tag: microformats
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06.02.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:11 pm by Todd
Spurred by Chao’s recent post, I rolled up my sleeves and tucked into Coase’s Penguin, a discourse on the emergence of Commons-Based Peer Production. CP was authored several years ago, but I’d never seen it before, and I have to confess that it was really rather mind-blowing. I had a dozen “aha!” moments, as CP really captures some core shifts in paradigm, changes that I’d seen and, perhaps, understood only intuitively. CP really helped to coalesce some my thinking.
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05.31.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:47 pm by Todd
Another provactive post on the value of the Semantic Web compared to the semantic web has spurred some more debate at Danny Ayer’s blog.
What’s clear from the discussion is that there’s still fairly serious disagreement about what the thrust of the Semantic Web is, as well as the practical limitations of its implementation via RDF/XML.
What I’d like to understand: what are the practical limitations of using MicroFormats? What do you lose by taking an approach that is based on MicroFormats instead of RDF? And if GRDDL provides a data migration path from MF to RDF, do those limitations really carry any weight?
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