glenn mcdonald
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How We Talk About What We KnowQuery language as human tool.glenn mcdonald added 9 months ago
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ILX METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2008 RESULTS (NOW COUNTING DOWN THE TOP TEN, BTW)ILX METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2008 RESULTS (NOW COUNTING DOWN THE TOP TEN, BTW) Thanks to all who voted. A BIG thanks to MUSICALLY for providing advice and the template. and a BIG thanks to GLENN for tabulating the results. Much appreciated so direct all thanks to them. Glenn will also be ...glenn mcdonald added 11 months ago
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\m/ The Metal Travel Guide \m/ - København (Copenhagen)Your Guide to Metal Locations worldwide - discover more than 1600 Metal pubs, clubs, venues, festivals and record stores in about 90 countries!glenn mcdonald added 17 months ago
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What can the Semantic Web do for me? from JasonKolb.com - The life of a technology entrepreneur.One of the questions I'm being asked somewhat frequently these days, probably because I write about it a lot, is "what can the Semantic Web do for this product/idea/whatever?" My reaction is always a brief pause while I realize that the person asking the question doesn't really understand what ...glenn mcdonald added 18 months ago
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Ontologies are the Esperanto for the Babel Fish of the 21st CenturyYeah, nice. Neither the literary nor software Babel Fishes used Esperanto, so as written this analogy says that ontologies are pedantic and irrelevant! But, to be fair, at least the analogy itself forms a readable English phrase, of which there are not so many others to be found in the actual ...glenn mcdonald added 16 months ago
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Never Mind the Semantic WebSee also Jason Kolb's blog-post "What Can the Semantic Web Do for Me?, about the Semantic Web as databsae tech.glenn mcdonald added to Web 3.0 - Semantic Web 18 months ago
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What can the Semantic Web do for me? from JasonKolb.com - The life of a technology entrepreneur.Jason's comments about "The Semantic Web" as database tech, not web tech, resemble mine in the discussion of my blog-post "Never Mind the Semantic Web"...glenn mcdonald added to Web 3.0 - Semantic Web 18 months ago
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Never Mind the Semantic WebSee, flat discussions are better. (See my note at the end of comment 43...) And unread-tracking, for that matter, is actually at least as valuable as "recommended items", perhaps more so.glenn mcdonald added to Web 3.0 - Semantic Web 18 months ago
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Never Mind the Semantic WebJames- I'm not necessarily even trying to "process" these items! I'm trying to build bodies of knowledge, which are almost invariably made up of data at a lower granularity than anything I can bookmark. I want to build a linked database of digital camera information, for example, not just a ...glenn mcdonald added to Web 3.0 - Semantic Web 18 months ago