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- Fruits of Passion (Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:08:35 -0700)
Last night I attended a technoception at one of the hip, high tech companies in Seattle... Zaaz. You know you can trust them for Web design, because their name is globally unique, cool, and SEO'd*. Their home page is so... - Limbo (Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:41:47 -0700)
It has been so long since I've posted to my blog, Typepad has actually improved the interface. Or at least changed it. I feel rumplestiltskinish. The quiatus has been due to a rapid fire month of graduations, a wedding, the... - Open Source as an Industry (Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:17:36 -0700)
Two reports on open source as an industry came to my attention this past week, each of which is encouraging for those who believe that open source software is a good thing. The first, Open source: 'World's largest software company'... - Public Spaces and Libraries (Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:28:32 -0700)
Much of our thinking in the library community these days is focused on the transition from the real to the virtual: the challenges of moldy oxidation giving way to bit rot, and the uneasy feeling that Google is making our... - The Magnificent Seven (Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:07:33 -0700)
I've just come from the last of many marathon editing sessions with my DataNet proposal colleagues at the University of Washington. A group of 7 people, most of whom scarcely knew of one another's existence a few months ago, have... - Rumors of our death.... (Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:09:35 -0800)
Library Link of the Day offers an interesting, if superficial, photo essay on Public Library architecture in the age of Google (in Slate). Nice eye candy for bibliophiles. Seattle's Koolhaus is there (how could it not be?). Salt Lake City's... - BOOK REVIEW: The Inheritance of Loss (Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:52:11 -0800)
Kiran Desai's Booker Prize winner, The Inheritance of Loss is an elliptical tale looping backward and forward through the twentieth century, India, New York, Cambridge, the legacy of British imperialism, class tensions, and the age-old distrust of other. The story... - Heros (Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:55:11 -0800)
Tim Bray recently posted a retrospective on 10 years of XML history, and his expository device is just right - the people. One of those people is the late Yuri Rubinski. Is, is, is. Reading Tim's piece brought back the... - Uncoupling identification and resolution (Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:39:59 -0800)
Conflating identity and resolution of Web resources is often useful... it is usually the right thing to do. But I've written in the past about the need, on occasion, to uncouple these fundamental functions. There is a fairly long standing... - Metadata: Semantics; Structure; Syntax (Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:56:25 -0800)
Peter Murray, aka the Disruptive Library Technology Jester posted an encapsulated history of the origins of the Dublin Core, and observed that he still istrying to reconcile what differences exist between RDF and the DCAM based on these postings and...
