Category Archives: Events

BarCamp Vancouver

By Rob Linton on September 29, 2008

Seamus and I presented a little about what we were doing at BarCamp Vancouver and we had a great time.  Many kudos to the people that made BarCamp such a success.

Also posted in BarCampVancouver, General Discussion

Namespaces, Microformats, RDFa, HTML, XHTML

By Rob Linton on September 19, 2008

We were recently at Yahoo’s Hack Day and one of the presentations I attended was by the SearchMonkey guys.  What piqued my interest here was that the teaser paragraph talked about augmenting search results with the semantic web — e.g. Microformats, XSLT, RDFa, et al. Hmmm, sounds applicable…

Also posted in Microformat and Mark-up, RDFa, Semantic Web

Web Licensing Needs to Be More Granular

By David Gratton on September 9, 2008

<geek alert>
Presently, all the blogs I’ve looked at (I readily concede there are blogs that I have not looked at ) which assign a license to their content do it on a page or global level.

Also posted in General Discussion, Microformat and Mark-up

Ubiquity Illustrates Impressive Thinking and the Need for Attribution Microformat

By David Gratton on August 27, 2008

The net was a buzz with with Aza Raskin’s post on Ubiquity: An experiment into connecting the Web with language.

Also posted in Licensing & Attribution, Microformat and Mark-up, Technology Innovation

The Need for an Attribution Trail

By David Gratton on August 25, 2008

When content is being reused from one source to another, etiquette and ethics would insist that the content creator (the person reusing content) provide clear attribution and links to the original content while obeying the content’s license.
When searching for an example of proper attribution, I had to go no further than Miss 604’s blog, aka [...]

Also posted in Ethical Reuse, Licensing & Attribution, Microformat and Mark-up, RDFa, Technology Innovation
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