Open Social Scene

Saul suggested that we run a “Open Social Graph” session at next year’s Open Knowledge Foundation conference. Great! I thought. Hang on, what’s an open social graph?
Bread Fitzpatrick sets out some broad assumptions and goals about this open social graph effort. It’s a reaction to user annoyance at having to recreate a “social network” on […]

On re-reading Aramis

Wrote this a few months ago and forgot about it. Is scrappy, but a decent preface to the next post on the stack…
I seem unable to see a copy of Aramis without walking off with it. Frumin’s i returned the next day, Shekhar’s copy i half-advertently whisked 3000 miles away from where it needed to […]

amateur personal information archaeology

Today I had a fun surprise digging out an old notebook of mine from a box that had been in my mother’s keeping. It dates through the summer of 2003, after my introductory whirl on the conference circuit with Gonzo Collaborative Mapping on the Semantic Web. At the end it overlaps with the “Crystalpunk Notebook” […]