Internet Alchemy

This does not bode well for the web:

Verisign yesterday added wildcard DNS records to all .com and .net domains – redirecting surfers who get lost on the Net to a search page, called Site Finder, run by the company. Those who type in non-existent addresses will also be served up Site Finder, instead of an error message.

It beggers belief how can this have been allowed?

Development on RDF Templates is moving apace over at Semantic Planet, the semantic web laboratory I share with James. Recent changes include source scoped nodepaths that operate over the raw input RDF graph before any RDFS closure rules are applied; a function to get the label of the current node and a node specifier that matches only nodes that are the subject of a triple in the relevant graph. Finally, if you’re curious about how the nodepaths work then I’ve just posted a detailed analysis of the operation of one nodepath from a stylesheet that produces an HTML version of an RDF schema.

I’ve updated my RDF Templates spec and produced a PHP implementation. More here