October 2007

ODF enters the Semantic Web

October 12, 2007

Metadata is “data about data”. Meta from the Greek, μετά, meaning with or after.  I suppose if you wanted to sound grand you could pronounce it hyper-correctly with the stress on the second syllable, met-ah’. I’ve heard some incorrectly pronounce it meet’-ah, perhaps a false analogy with βῆτα = beta. But you never hear anyone [...]

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Cracks in the Foundation

October 7, 2007

You must admire their tenacity. Gary Edwards, Sam Hiser, and Paul E. Merrell (aka “Marbux”) . The mythology of Silicon Valley is filled with stories of three guys and a garage founding great enterprises. And here we have three guys, and through blogs, interviews, and constant attendance at conferences, they have become some of the [...]

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