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My name is Richard Cyganiak.
I'm a researcher at DERI, a research institute based in Galway, Ireland. I work on web technologies for managing data.Links
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If Microsoft had designed the iPod packaging …
A funny video. (via fscklog) Update: Scoble [says the video was created by Microsoft marketing for an internal meeting.]
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XML namespaces are a Good Thing
[Update: oops, I forgot to give this post a real title.] Note to self: Whenever I will come up with new XML formats, I’ll put them into XML namespaces. To quote SGML greybeard and XML co-inventor Eliot Kimber: If you’re … Continue reading
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RSS user experience: Temporary subscriptions
Merlin Mann has some very good ideas on improving the RSS user experience. Both revolve around the fact that a user’s interaction with an RSS feed has three phases (subscribing to the feed, reading new items coming through the feed … Continue reading
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Malcolm Gladwell is blogging
Malcolm Gladwell, one of my favourite writers, has started a blog: I have come (belatedly) to the conclusion that a blog can be a very valuable supplement to my books and the writing I do for the New Yorker. What … Continue reading
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