Recently i have been thinking quite a bit about standards and how they work, the systems economics of networks, on mutual governance models for transport infrastructure.

Because of the Mapping Hacks book I have a small scale obsession with the INSPIRE Directive establishing a Spatial Data in Europe. The FOSS SDIC page at OSGeo.org's wiki has more details on how to offer comments on EU plans for common spatial data interfaces and formats.

I am doing another project with Terradue, this one a lightweight, generic registry engine for metadata. Occasionally i post more detail about this to the terradue website

I used to Believe semantic web will save the world, now i am not so sure. For me this began back in 2002, when I was experimenting with a spatially-aware, rss-eating instant message bot called mudlondon. Lately i found an old article on why I wrote mudlondon