Tag Archives: applications

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.

Posted in BarCampVancouver, Events, General Discussion

RDFa Trials and Travails

By Rob Linton on September 24, 2008

So I’ve spent the last few days trying to get my head around RDFa, and I gotta say, it’s not easy.  Excessive complexity is a charge often levelled against RDF and it’s something that RDFa was meant to mitgate.  Has it been successful in that?  I would say partially, yes.

Posted in General Discussion, Microformat and Mark-up, RDFa

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.

Posted in Events, General Discussion, Microformat and Mark-up

Getting the Ball Rolling: Formats for Licensing and Attribution

By Rob Linton on August 28, 2008

So even a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, right?  I think I heard that somewhere before…
With that in mind here’s some preliminary thinking on a licensing and attribution format.

Posted in Licensing & Attribution, 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.

Posted in Events, Licensing & Attribution, Microformat and Mark-up, Technology Innovation
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