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Linked data – currently a bumpy road
So, the UK Government has made a firm commitment in its new “public data principles” to publish any “raw” dataset in linked data form in the smarter government white paper. Quite what does this mean?
I tried to find a clear definition of “raw” data. In almost all definitions you will find on the Internet, it [...]
IESS 1.0
Just back from the First International Conference on Exploring Services Sciences at the University of Geneva, and my head is buzzing with questions – proof that it was a good conference. A truly multi-disciplinary event, with computer and social scientists mixing with marketing and corporate strategy folks. Mostly academic this year, but there is a [...]
Desktop synchronisation
For home desktop backup and synchronisation, I have been using a combination of Foldermatch and Carbonite. Carbonite offers unlimited online backup storage for a single machine for less than $60 a year, and Foldermatch allows me to synchronise folders across machines. Although neither works directly with Linux, I can run Foldermatch on a Wintel desktop [...]
Goodbye to the year of the Wave
Will 2009 be remembered as the year of the Wave? Google Wave is still in trial, and having played around with it for a bit, it is clearly still a bit rough around the edges. One tends to try and use it like we use email, and knowing where to put waves, where [...]
Does everything grow exponentially?
An interesting talk by Ray Kurzweil, well worth the 40 minutes’ investment. Did he come up with Moore’s Law before Gordon Moore thought of it? Just how universal is it?
Not everyone likes what he says. Douglas Hofstadter, who wrote the best book I’ve ever read, said of Kurzweil’s and Hans Moravec’s books:
“It’s as if you [...]