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Sadly enough the word “metadata” still acts on me like catnip on cats, then the words “data licensing” put a seal on it, I feel impelled to go and poke my nose in other people’s business. The business in question was that of Re:Transmission, a gathering of independent video producers held in London, and their […]

When i feel it’s quite clear to me what i need; yet i spend half an hour attempting to articulate it to someone who knows me very well; I drop back to trying to articulate it here. Since i Stopped Coding, i’m doing a lot less, and talking a lot more. I want to make […]

I had a lovely chat today with miegawa[sic?], a core developer of the plagger feed aggregation / re-interfacing project, and found the quick overview fascinating. Right now, plagger is a kind of feed multiplexing system, which talks to different well known services like gmail, delicious etc, but has generic interfaces to stmp, irc and other […]

bugfixing indyvoter drove me to crazed thoughts of conversational development methods: of consensus code generation without becoming a slave to formalisms or change control regimes. we all wander down paths of reasoning, change APIs, leaving no breadcrumbs on the onramp.
i didn’t have to invent a development methodology: i stole one from the preface to Tom […]

i made an RDF API to the del.icio.us api, to make a point. The RDF version of the del.icio.us api works exactly the same as the real one, but the results are in RDF, and everything that goes through it gets stored in an RDF model. this means that you may get back more context […]