Ever had a superficial conversation suddenly run your blood cold? On the short cab-ride to my hotel following FOWA (more to follow), the cab driver was explaining the extension of the conference venue. This is not usually the preamble to a conversation that changes your perspectives, except maybe on the architectural uses of steel spider’s… Read More
Posts Tagged ‘ideas’
Friday, October 10th, 2008 Tags: cab driver, church, context, editorial, emergent, Excel, ideas, Manchester United, Perspective, PR, steel spider, United Kingdom, web conference
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I have begun to see that we may be entering a new age of polymaths, and I’m happy to be involved in a part of the business world which seems to sustain some of the best brains on the planet. I remember reading about the beginners of industry—the pioneers of technology and science. I remember… Read More
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Tags: change the world, chess, development, emergent, Google, ideas, Java, Perspective, review, Robert Fulton, web industry switch
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Having been inspired by Lifehacker’s workspace show and tell, I’ve decided to organise my workspace a bit. I have a quite deep, wooden desk with drawers which tend to fill with clutter. I’ve decided to feed a powerstrip through the back of one of the drawers so I can plug in two usb hubs and… Read More
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Tags: desktop blogging, ideas, intuitive products, Perspective, stuff, web/desktop
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Image by . SantiMB . (too busy) via Flickr I grew up in a Mac family. My dad used to programme accounts recievable applications on an old, black and white Macintosh, and that was my first encounter with any sort of GUI. Since then, I’ve used both Mac’s and PC’s and have a MacBook for… Read More
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Tags: accounts recievable
applications, Aero, blog using Windows Live Writer, cough, Dell, desktop blogging, Digital, GUI, ideas, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X, Mail, Messenger, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, operating system, RAM, review, software design, visual, Windows Live, writer
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The BBC reported a few days ago that: Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. The idea is that people are using the web to get things done, and don’t seem to notice that service providers want them to stick around. They even get tetchy with intrusions or… Read More
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Tags: Amazon.co.uk, Digital, editorial, Facebook, Google, ideas, interesting, Jakob Nielsen, Land Rover Discovery 3, online marketing, particular site, previously-read author, reading, Tesco, the Times, Vienna, Web 2.0, Web Users, web works
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I just watched this talk by Richard Baraniuk (link if embed doesn’t work), about opening up access to educational text and information. One of the most amazing ideas from his talk and the project they’re working on (Connections) is open-sourced text books. The idea is that collaborative text-books, published on-demand could answer more questions and… Read More
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Tags: abstract, Education, ideas, interesting, Richard Baraniuk, Semantic Web, semantics
Category: Semantic Web 4 Comments
I was listening to one of Stephen Fry‘s ‘podgrams’—”Wallpaper“—in which he briefly touched on the idea that the English tend to classify something as ‘pretentious’ if they don’t understand it. It’s a form of defense of tradition or perspective. Intelligence or flamboyance are marked as a personality flaw; people exhibiting uncomfortable behaviour or traits are… Read More
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Tags: abstract, dialogue, ideas, interesting, Jacqui Smith, Stephen Fry, Tony Blair, wine
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I tend to live in a world of metaphor. It’s not my fault, according to Lakoff and Johnson. We all use metaphor all the time: to construct our thoughts and work out abstract concepts. I’ve been exploring this a bit in the context of the Semantic Web over on Nodalities. Please feel free to have… Read More
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Tags: abstract, blogging, concepts, conduit metaphor, ideas, me, semantic, Semantic Web
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Are we, as a society or set of societies too quick to categorise? I think we have built upon the Victorian-era’s predilection for classification for understanding. You’ll notice, no doubt, that I categorised the idea of classification as Victorian. Perhaps this is a helpful metaphorical conduit for expressing a large number of semantic nuances–a sort… Read More
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Tags: Digital, ideas, nurse, practicing veterinary surgeon, semantic, veterinary surgeon
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I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading on the Semantic Web lately, and its primary feature from the perspective of a writer is a difficulty of easy definition. It avoids simple sobriquet and isn’t explained without analogy and lengthy description. The best way I have come to think of the whole system is as… Read More
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Tags: Digital, ideas, interesting, introduction, Nicolas Cynober, nova spivack, Radar Technologies, semantic, Semantic Web, Tim Berners Lee, Web Talk, writer
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