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Trends and Barriers
|This article first appeared in Nodalities Magazine, CC By + SA For anyone following the Nodalities blog, you may have read some of my recent posts discussing the trends boiling up around Web 3.0 (other buzzwords are available). The Mobile Web and upgraded...
Journalism Needs Data in 21st Century
|This first appeared as a guest post on ReadWriteWeb, republished with kind permission Journalism has always been about reporting facts and assertions and making sense of world affairs. No news there. But as we move further into the 21st century, we will have to...
Democracy and the Web: the UK gets it while America tries to control it.
I read yesterday that twitter has been banned from the White House. In the post, Marshall Kirkpatrick joked that this could be a reason we haven't seen much from Obama's twitter stream recently. I must admit however, my initial reaction was sympathetic with the White...
WordPress Woes
So, Wordpress 2.8 is great! I love the interface, the drag/drop, the ajaxed admin area and loads of other features. Unfortunately, it's also broken. My problem occurs when I update plugins. Whenever a WP plugin needs updating, the automated system has failed to...
Britain 2.5
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities It's hardly new for this blog or our community to cover issues of open access and making information useful for users. But, what if we were to begin speaking in terms such as: "A call for...
Web two dot oh plus one, in the cloud, with bells on…
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities The tech world is telling a story about the Web and computing, and the mainstream media seem to be catching on. They're hearing about clouds, wikis, and the history of the World-wide Web. The...
A Good Week for RDFa
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities With the unveiling of Google's RDFa support and discussions from the UK's Central Office of Information around using RDFa in their job sites, there has certainly been a lot of coverage of RDFa...
What we’ve been working on…
Talis, my employer, has been a big promoter of Linked Data and open-access to information, because we see that new ideas often arise when existing ideas come together. Innovation, if you like, occurs at the join between ideas when they connect. I see this as...
Innovative Design: Working Dog Company Training Dummies
When Lucas joined our household, I knew he'd make a great working dog. His dad was a steady, dependable sort who is a champion at working dog shows and used for picking up at pheasant shoots – and Lucas took immediately to retrieving. Not only do I like the...