Improve your blog design: semantic web technologies (Part II)

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CoolPreviews

CoolPreviews, also created by the Cooliris team, lets you preview links without clicking, giving you the power to browse the Web faster. Just mouse over any link, and the preview window immediately appears to show you the content. In other words, you can preview web links, images, and videos without even clicking. In addition you [...]

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Improve your blog design: semantic web technologies (Part I)

Alex Iskold published on ReadWriteWeb a couple of days ago an interesting and well summarised “Guide to The Contextual Web” (btw: I can’t see much difference between the meaning of his term and that of ‘semantic web‘). He talks about the limitations of today’s browsers, which simply store data (information) but don’t allow computers to [...]

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A prostitute’s new life

Today’s Herald featured a long article on Graham Long, the current Wayside Chapel’s general manager. In it Long talked about his biggest revelation when working for several years in prisons: the ‘them and us’ illusion. And he found the same thought pattern of course when starting his job at the Wayside Chapel: the homeless vs. [...]

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Authenticity as listening to nature

“Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us”.
I like this Gerard Depardieu reflection. Of course, I don’t know which way he chose to link listening with nature and authenticity, but his bon mot gave me a chance to reflect on my own interpretation of that triad; it is based on seeing [...]

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