Encarta nostalgia: SGML and the Semantic Web
I’m not going to much mourn Encarta’s demise. Wikipedia is too big, too fast, too useful, too much fun. But Encarta was an ambitious project that broke some ground. So, pardon me if I sigh wistfully...
View ArticleA twisty path to Chrome in the enterprise
Despite the title of Andrew Conry-Murray’s article in InformationWeek — “Why Business IT Shouldn’t Shrug Off Chrome OS” — it’s on balance quite negative about the prospects for enterprises adopting...
View ArticleOED goes paperless
The Oxford English Dictionary has announced that it will not print new editions on paper. Instead, there will be Web access and mobile apps. According to the article in the Telegraph, “A team of 80...
View Article[misc][2b2k] Why ontologies make me nervous
A few days ago there was a Twitter back and forth between two people I deeply respect: Dan Brickley [twitter:danbri] and Ed Summers [twitter:edsu]. It started with Ed responding to a tweet about a...
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