During last week’s now-legendary BarCamp, Strata Chalup, Liz Henry, Dierdre Moen, Mary Hodder and others discussed applying tags to physical space: places and people. Tonight I remembered that Jo Walsh talked about a similar project: tagging London using RDF at OSCON back in 2003.
Update: Julian Bond points out that P3P is not what you want here — for some reason I thought P3P had an identity component. You want FoaF here. Note to Scoble and everyone else complaining about having to add their info to Orkut, ICQ, AIM, and so on: remember P3P? Now if everyone can agree [...]
[ via Scott Loftesness ] Frank Booseman would like blog tools to support walled garden posting. He’s inspired when a friend would love to post photos from a party, but not to the whole world. Live Journal, which I’ve been playing with lately, supports this. It can, because it’s a monolitic (on the server-side) application. [...]
[ via Cynthia Ward ] FOI advocates working with George Soros’ Open Society Institute, and The National Security Archive launched freedominfo.org, which describes best practices, lessons learned, and campaign strategies and tactics for freedom of information advocates around the world.
Jabber’s a open source Instant Messenger system that can hook up with AIM, ICQ and other IM systems. It also uses XML in the transport. I don’t know how. Gotta read the docs. Jabbernaut is a Mac client for Jabber. Love the AgitProp-style logo.
Many, if not all, of the mailing lists I’m on have the ‘reply-to-all’ as a default policy. This may be a bad idea. After seeing a couple of passionate love letters sent to an entire Wisconsin Public Radio list by mistake, I agree.
“Two years in a row, representatives from a number of ”groups, associations, and trade unions” have met in Paris under the sponsorship of a group called IRIS (http://www.iris.sgdg.org/) to discuss policies that would create and preserve an ”Internet that promotes non-commercial interests and solidarity.”” The document emphasisizes privacy, rejects software patents, and opposes any content [...]
[ via Wiki Wiki ] Jiki Jiki Java is an implementation of a Wiki Wiki colaboration environment in Java.
[ via First Monday ] ThirdVoice, the Web site annotation plugin for IE, has become a bête-noir. Here’s a JavaScript you can use to disable the plugin on your site.
Who to pick? Time Magazine’s polling for the biggest phonies of the Century. Dr. Laura, Ayn Rand, Michael Milken, and Charles Ponzi are on the list. So is J. R. “Bob” Dobbs (who isn’t even a person.) Perhaps they ment Church of the Subgenius founder Ivan Stang?
[ via TBTF ] Take It Offline provides a quickie way to fire off a single-threaded subdiscussion from a mailing list or WebLog. All the replies live on one URL and you can dispose of the thread when you’re done. Link