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23 Jun 09

Saint Louis Beacon - Take five: Media theorist Eric McLuhan carries on his father Marshall's message

  • Ecology relates to the natural environment and trying to keep things in balance. Media ecology does the same thing -- only in media -- to try to balance the effects of new media and old media.
  • The same medium won't have the same effect on two different cultures. The idea of ecology takes some account of the changes these people are going to go through. The medium changes you.
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What is the Semantic Web really all about? - Web Science - the World of the World Wide Web - James Hendler's blog on Nature Network

  • to be able to integrate (link) data on the Web we must have some mechanism for knowing what relationships hold among the data, and how that relates to some “real world” context.
  • for this to work, the machine-readable tags used in one file would need to point at those in others — either to point back to definitions or to point at various kinds of related things. Since the Web provided a naming mechanism, URIs (think URL, but to specific parts of a document as opposed to the whole thing) we figured basing the markup on this would be of help.
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22 Jun 09

Who rules real-time search? A look at 11 contenders | VentureBeat

  • The issue for real-time search is figuring out the right balance between immediacy, popularity and relevance. Stream everything without any filtering, and a search could bring up a lot of irrelevant chatter. Filter too strongly, and a search might omit important trends that have been picked up in the last hour.
17 Jun 09

Google Squared: Google’s New Semantic Search Product | Oxford SEO Studies Blog

  • the first significant effort by Google to permit their algorithms a rudimentary understanding of the information  architecture on the web
  • structured data from across the web and presents its results in spreadsheet-like format. Each search query return a table of search results which has its own square or set of columns depicting common attributes that are associated with the topic of a search

OxfordSEO Blog on Semantic Search Development

  • It is the first significant effort by Google to permit their algorithms a rudimentary understanding of the information  architecture on the web and render the results to a query in  new and more useful ways.

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Michael Goldhaber on the end of the narrative self

  • The new way, with and through the Internet, is not diachronic, it would seem, so much as synchronic. You are your current set of interests, contacts, Twitter postings, Facebook postings, blog postings, listserv controversies, your latest images, and YouTube videos — trapped in an eternal but changing present that gives no sense of birth or death or growing up, or even growing at all.
  • You are tied to others and you are only defined in some sort of interaction with them, but only as now.
16 Jun 09

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » What about communication?

  • stigmergy is a form of self-organizing, without the need for any communication. This should resolve the coordination paradox. Because agents leave traces in the system, other agents can act on them. This indirect form of communication is not directly addressed to anyone, but the one that notices the trace can act upon it.
  • stigmergy is a form of self-organizing, without the need for any communication. This should resolve the coordination paradox. Because agents leave traces in the system, other agents can act on them. This indirect form of communication is not directly addressed to anyone, but the one that notices the trace can act upon it.
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12 Jun 09

Online communities, etc.

  • They don't get it because they don't use it.
  • The reason no record label knows how to market anything to new media is they don't live there.
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Blogs, papers, and the brave new digital world: Matt’s thoughts « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

  • Sometimes people push back on posts of mine they don’t like by telling me I’m out of bounds. Somehow, they say, I’ve crossed the boundary of what I’m allowed to write about. They are angry that I’m now writing about something outside my defined area.


    I’m usually taken aback by this, because I didn’t realize I’d actually agreed to any boundaries.

  • the Intolerable Problem, which is that people online can critique papers and present new evidence and arguments in a format that is impermanent and not peer-reviewed.
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08 Jun 09

What is Web 3.0? Semantic Web & other Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English

  • Web 3.0 - This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things.

lawjobs.com Career Center - Legal Ontologies Spin a Semantic Web

  • An ontology represents a common vocabulary and organization of information that explicitly, formally and generally specifies a conceptualization of a given domain. Ontologies are related to knowledge management (cf. Rusanow's "Knowledge Management and the Smarter Lawyer") and taxonomies (cf. Sherwin's article "Legal Taxonomies"). But an ontology is a more specific, explicit and formal representation of knowledge than provided by KM; and it is richer and more flexible than a taxonomy.
  • Ontologies are delimited, representing only some aspects of some domain, though one ontology may relate to another one (e.g., ontologies for intellectual property cases and human rights cases are related to one another and to a global ontology for legal cases).
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01 Jun 09

The Real Time Web is a Beautiful Distraction – Opposable Planets

  • As with philosophy, poetry is a time-intensive practice that requires deep focus and concentration.   Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook and the host of real-time-web feed services belong on the opposite side of the spectrum.  They are quintessentially distraction-based media;  shallow on context and truncated into staccato bursts of conversation…  These media play off of a very real psychological factor known as operant conditioning, the addictive need to return over and over in hopes of a reward

Google vs. the Real-Time Web

  • real-time content marks a still-amorphous but important new phase of evolution in the web, allowing for the instantaneous discovery of newly added information

  • content on the web is splitting into two basic models, and understanding this distinction makes clear why Google’s centralized role is being threatened.


    Simply put, it’s the difference between discovery and search, between the “Now Web” and the “Then Web.”

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31 May 09

Something Wiki This Way Comes: Linking is a Good Thing

  • Linked Data is collectively intelligent
  • there are barriers in the adoption of Linked Data whose measure of success and effectiveness will depend directly on its ubiquity. One big problem is that many organizations value their data and quite naturally wish to protect it. Propriety and intellectual capital are profound cultural barriers to linked data

The Semantic Web Gets Social: Twine overtakes FriendFeed | Connected Science

  • Another milestone has been reached in the progress of the semantic web. The Friday issue of the Washington Post reports that the social information management site Twine has overtaken its rival FriendFeed in terms of unique monthly visitors. By some accounts Twine users outstrip FriendFeed adherents three to one.  What makes this significant for users rather than just investors is how Twine doesn’t just get bigger, it gets smarter the more it is used.
30 May 09

Enterprises, Struggling to Manage Your Data? Try The Semantic Web

  • With the Semantic Web, you don't have to reinvent the wheel with your own ontology, because others, such as musicontology.com and DBpedia, have already created ontologies and made them available on the Web. As long as they're public and useful, you can use those. Where your context differs from theirs, you make yours specific, but where there's commonality, you use what they have created and leave it in place. Ideally, you make public the non-sensitive elements of your business-specific ontology that are consistent with your business model, so others can make use of them.
29 May 09

On the status of science in society « I was lost but now I live here

  • simply relating the facts of science isn’t enough. No matter that the overwhelming weight of evidence shows that climate change is real, or that vaccines don’t cause autism. When scientists find themselves just one more voice in a sea of “opinions” about a complex scientific issue, misinformation takes on a life of its own.
22 May 09

Web 3.0 or Not, There's Something Different About 2009

    • In a nutshell here are some of the new or noticeable trends that we're seeing on the 2009 Web:


      • Open data
      • Structured data -> smarter
      • Filtering content
      • Real-time
      • Personalization
      • Mobile (location-based, so you could say that's smarter use of data too)
      • Internet of Things (the Web in real-world objects)

Google, Semantic Web Changing the Content Game - InternetNews.com

  • When it comes to enhancing content, it's time for publishers to find their way into the Web of linked data. "Once you have tagged content it lets you harvest free content from the Web to enhance your publications," he said, citing the free, open content ranging from geographic to music databases already out there in the linked data world.
  • From there, publishers can explore opportunities to use the Semantic Web in ways that get their juices flowing, such as enabling the investigative journalism process.
19 May 09

Semantics Incorporated: Tying Web 3.0, the Semantic Web and Linked Data Together - Part 3/3: Structuring Chaos

  • I see the point, if you assert that meaning is created through data transformation, as one can process RDF triples (the Linked Data format) through SPARQL (the query language, like SQL for databases) and also create new associations of triples linked through common URIs
  • I see the point, if you assert that meaning is created through data transformation, as one can process RDF triples (the Linked Data format) through SPARQL (the query language, like SQL for databases) and also create new associations of triples linked through common URIs
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