Friday, May 18, 2007

Change of posting style

I had become increasingly aware that a lot of my posts on this blog have just been link posts. In reaction to this I wanted to find a way to make it easier for me to make these posts.To do this I've gone the Google Reader and del.icio.us route.You'll see widgets for the two of these at the side now.If something is really worth a comment, I'm likely to still make a real post about it, but most of...

Friday, May 04, 2007

A semantic web? (not)

Is this really what Tim Berners-Lee meant when he coined the term 'semantic web'? He talked about machines learning by looking at data and seeing how it is related. Surely this is people teaching machines.http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/freebase_will_p_1.htmlhttp://blogs.oreillynet.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1859http://www.freebase.c...

save the world!

"How can we even think of saving chimpanzees if the humans around them are struggling to survive?" That was the question posed by Dr. Jane Goodall, who's devoted 47 years of her life studying chimps in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanza...