When
· Naughties
· · 2003
· · · November
· · · · 09 (3 entries)
Practical Accessibility · As previously noted, last week I spent time in airports in Seattle, Denver, and Minneapolis. In one of them—modern airports blur together in their grungy lack of welcome to the extent that I really can’t remember which—I had an eye-opening experience in the men’s room ...
501 · I just noticed the essay counter over at the top right had ticked past 500. Let’s count... something over two hundred thousand words since February 27, don’t ever let anyone tell you this writing stuff isn’t addictive. And thanks for reading.
Metadata, Semantics and All That · Mr. Shirky’s recent extended polemic against the Semantic Web has been given lots of linkage from more than one influential direction. I’m closer to the Semantic Web project than most, and remain significantly unconvinced, but I don’t think dismissing it is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, and anyhow shooting fish in a barrel is unsportsmanlike and generally sucks. So here is another take on it all, with an (admittedly somewhat scaled down) vision of what the Next Web might look like ...
