Feb 17 2003
This is completely unjustified and unprofessional:
Now, Kevin [Burton] is not one of my favorite people. I’ve had repeated run-ins with him that have convinced me that he’s the most dangerous kind of idiot: the stupidity made coherent kind.
FWIW, I haven’t met Kevin, but we’ve had many long debates via email. I don’t agree with him a lot of the time, but I do respect him and his opinions.
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Feb 17 2003
Tim Bray and Jonathan Borden have come up with a simpler version of RDDL as part of the W3C TAG’s work in this area.
The proposal is very simple: just add two new attributes rddl:nature and rddl:purpose to the standard HTML <a> element. The nature is a reference to a URI describing the nature of the resource, e.g. a schema. The purpose is a label that describes what the resource is for, e.g. validation. (There’s a full list of RDDL purposes here.)
Very cool work which is simple enough to address the main problem with current RDDL resources - maintainability.
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Feb 17 2003
On the rss-dev list
we’ve been looking at autodiscovery of rss and foaf using the link tag,
specifically by extending the mime-type information. Another way to do it is to
use a different ‘rel’ value. For RSS we currently use a rel value of ‘alternate’
since the RSS is presumed to be an alternate form of the same page. For FOAF,
suggested using a value of ‘meta’ which is a generic catch-all.
My suggestion is to use rel=”foaf”, e.g.:
<link rel="foaf" type="application/rdf+xml" title="FOAF"
href=”http://example.com/people/~you/foaf.rdf” />
To do this, the HTML spec recommends that you create a new HTML
profile which basically provides an interpretation of the various
conventions used in the HTML page.
I’ve put a profile up at
3/02/profile. This is an extension of Aaron Swartz’s RSS in HTML
profile
To use it just change your HEAD tag in your HTML page so that it looks like this:
<head profile="http://internetalchemy.org/2003/02/profile" >
You can then add the following in the head of your page:
<link rel="foaf" type="application/rdf+xml" title="FOAF"
href=”http://example.com/people/~you/foaf.rdf” />
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Feb 16 2003
I’m still don’t know what to think of this, but whatever, it’s going to mark some big changes in weblog-land.
I hope the original blogger team (Meg, pb, Matt, and jack) get something back for the pain they went through…
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Feb 03 2003
I’ve been pretty busy recently, however I’ve updated my list of RSS aggregators that support conditional GETs. Other than that I’ve been working intermittently on Semantic Planet.
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