Monthly Archives: December 2005

David Best is blogging

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

I just noticed that David Best, whom I know from university in Berlin, and who currently studies in Eindhoven, has a blog. Subscribed!

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Keeping tab on politicians with RSS

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

A good thing: the Washington Post’s Congress Vote Database. It’s a database of all votes cast in the U.S. parliament. You can see who voted for and against which laws and even get RSS feeds for the votes of individual … Continue reading →

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Quote of the day

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

This experience reinforced my belief that my MBA gave me a better understanding of markets than my verbal sparring partners got from doing bongs and thinking as hard as they could. —Scott Adams

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Tim Bray heaps praise on Adium

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

Tim Bray: Adium is the Future It’s true. Adium, the premier open source instant messenger for OS X, is a phantastic little application.

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Learn to love the Übernode

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

Valentin Zacharias writes how his vision of the Semantic Web changed: I always tend to think of the Semantic Web as a web of personal homepages where everyone annotates his stuff. […] But actually I wasn’t seeing the forest for … Continue reading →

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Semantic Desktop Workshop

Posted on December 10, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

Semantic Desktop Workshop. Today was the food and beer kickoff. Discussion quickly drifted to highly philosophical spheres. Why have folks so different visions of the semantic web? Should artifical agents make decisions, or should they help us to make better … Continue reading →

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Towards the age of retrieval

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

A thought … How did man move from the agrarian age to the industrial age? By replacing muscle with technology. Machines are better at providing power and energy. How did man move from the industrial age to the information age? … Continue reading →

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