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ProseSchoolCurious how I'm doing? Check out schoolyard subversion my real-life weblog of the plot to change my school. My best piece so far is on unschooling, a program to learn on your own. Other highlights include my plan for Apprentice Education, my questioning of school rules and my review of ArsDigita University. Join the revolution. RDF Core Working GroupI'm a member of the RDF Core Working Group (see my intro) which attempts to resolve issue related to the use of RDF on the Web. The Working Group is part of the W3C's Semantic Web Activity. My position is on behalf of the HTML Writers Guild. SWAG: Semantic Web Agreement GroupI'm a founding member of SWAG, a group dedicated to making sure the Semantic Web remains interoperable. It also subsumes my work on projects.info, by allowing various interested parties to work together to create new vocabularies. I programmed the SWAG Dictionary, a web-based interface to Semantic Web terms. Dublin CoreI'm a member of the Dublin Core's Architecture Working Group which defines how Dublin Core items should be used it various formats. In addition, I'm also the SWAG representative to the Registry Working Group. RSS-DEVI'm a working group member of RSS-DEV and I co-edited the RSS 1.0 spec with Rael Dornfest. RSS InfoI publish the RSS Info website, keeping track of the goings-on in the RSS world. The site has not only news but a comprehensive list of RSS tools. I also maintain the RSS category on the Open Directory Project. Random WritingI now keep my random thoughts and writing over at LogicError.com. This includes book reviews and laws. However, my rather uninteresting (and outdated) current events remain here. Contact Me
Email: me@aaronsw.com
(always available) Web HideoutsYou can find more about me on Advogato, WikiWikiWeb, LogicError, RDFWeb (alternate version). LeftoversWant a copy of Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage (yes, that's really what's it's called!) Audio CD in MP3 format? Let me know, and I can get you a copy of this rare wonder. VanityI keep track of my press mentions and other things like that someplace else. |
CodeBlogspaceBlogspace is a simple website management system. It includes aspects of community systems, content management and knowledge bases, while keeping a simple, easy-to-use interface. It will be provided both as an free software product and as a service free of charge on the Internet. A demo version is expected to be available soon. [More...] check.theinfo.orgThis site allows you to validate Web files against Internet standards. It has validators for XML and HTML, and ot will also help clean up your web pages. [Go...] get.infoThe goal of the get.info project is to build an InfoBase of information collected from the Web. Eventually, you'll be able to enter in any InfoBase keyword (a name, a site, a magazine, a person, an idea, etc.) and get a listing of all the information on the web that pertains to it. get.info 3.0 collects and imports files from all across the Web and combines them into one searchable database. It imports RDF and XML (like RSS) collecting and categorizing the information. You'll also be able to build your own compatible knowledge base (using Blogspace, for example) which can be included in the overall InfoBase. [More...] my.infoThe my.info Project is an attempt to take charge of the information overload facing us today. By subscribing to various information sources, and ranking their usefulness and importance, you'll be able to have your own continously-update information inbox, with the latest news that you're interested in, and with the most important information at the top. The first step is to have websites provide their information in a semantically-enhanced format, rather than simple web pages. This is done using RSS. The second part is to use the changedPage system to provide a simple way for websites to notify each other when a page has updated. The third step is to build a Universal Login format to allow people to easily log in to any site without registering again. [Coming soon...] ArsDigita PrizeI was a second-place winner of the 2000 ArsDigita Prize for my entry the Info Network. Sites I Host
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