adrian's wall

RSS/Atom is the proof that, given the right incentive, people/systems can be developed to publish semantically marked-up content. Building the semantic web, however, seems to have fractured into two; build it using the correct technologies (RDF + OWL) or bootstrap it by encouraging people to semantically mark-up some of their content. Jon Udell, as far as I understand the argument, has been consistent and imaginative in his support of the latter. He has suggested that what is needed is some mechanism to reward those people that go through the pain of marking-up their content. I just wonder whether an appropriately implemented 'AutoLink' capability could do that? The need for an 'appropriate' implementation is, in part, a response to the furore that has arisen from Google's toolbar (e.g. Dave Winer's Google's toolbar and content modification ). IMHO this isn't a question of whether the reader is prepared to accept having the content they are reading modi...

This is a small post that contains an address. I found the address on Google's web-site: Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 USA My question is will people be able to auto-link it? And the answer is YES!

In some quarters speculation has been running rampant about 'What is the hidden intent of the Mac mini?'. Some have pointed to the appearance of Mr Ando of Sony at MacWorld as being significant. To my mind the missing ingredient of any truly distributed home entertainment system is the remote control . Using a remote to manipulate menus on your TV is just plain silly if you are trying to get music stored on your 'digital hub' to play on speakers in the kitchen. The remote needs to have a screen. As well as a screen, it needs just a few controls to manipulate the menus - not a tabletPC, not a PDA with a stylus and not a mobile phone. Enter the gaming consoles. Who has user interaction with screen-based, domestic mobile devices sorted out better? A Wi-Fi enabled PSP might be overkill but it would be a start. With a price in excess of $249 for the Wi-Fi option it also looks pricey, until you see what Sonos is all about and how much they charge for a remote...