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How Safari and Firefox handle HTML 5 Manifest files
I was doing some experiments with Adam in the lab on Friday, and we discovered some interesting variations in the way that Firefox and Safari implement the HTML 5 Cache Manifest specification. I think...
View ArticleTime Travel on the World Wide Web
What if you could flip a switch in your browser and browse the web like it’s 1999? If the Memento project succeeds, you’ll soon be able to. A joint project between the Los Alamos National Laboratory...
View ArticleSemantic Mediawiki workshop at MIT this Saturday/Sunday
I’ll be hosting a Semantic Mediawiki workshop at MIT this upcoming Saturday and Sunday May 22/23 and invite you to attend. Semantic Mediawiki has made some significant progress on a topic I consider...
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On a Few Deadly Data Sins and the Entropy of Open Data
I just ran into a lovely and frustrating open-government-style map of stimulus funding put together in Colorado. The same tool is used in a number of other states, listed in Brady Forest’s blog post...
View ArticleLottery-Based Micropatronage
Some time ago we began simmering a system called Tipsy that helps web users make voluntary micro-contributions to the content creators whose work they consume. It picked up steam when we started...
View ArticleRich Visualizations in your WordPress Blog
Datapress is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to enhance your WordPress blog posts with rich interactive visualizations such as maps, timelines, various charts, and sortable lists, all with...
View ArticleA Knight News Challenge Application
The Knight News Challenge is an ambitious undertaking to fund innovation in tools that can help digital journalism. I’m planning to submit a proposal around our Datapress data-blogging plugin for...
View ArticleSubmitted Knight News Challenge proposal
As forewarned in my last blog post, I’ve submitted a first draft of our Knight News Challenge proposal at their site; you can read and, more importantly, comment upon the proposal here. I welcome your...
View ArticleGoogle Plus Realnames are Solving the Wrong Problem. We Need Signatures.
I sympathize with Google’s efforts to prevent impersonation on plus. But I didn’t think the real names policy was the right approach, and I don’t think the verification badge approach addresses the...
View ArticleProgramming well in Javascript
With my background as a theoretical computer scientist, I’m a terrible programmer (Back in college taking operating systems, my team got special mention for having the most elegantly designed operating...
View ArticleKeynote at the European Semantic Web Conference Part 1: The State of End User...
I’ve just returned from the European Semantic Web Conference, where I gave a keynote talk on “The Semantic Web for End Users”. The slides are here . My talk addressed the problem that has interested...
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