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Thomas Wilson has started a new weblog related to information technology and theory. The Information Research Weblog is affilliated with the Information Research journal, and covers information theory, the semantic web, trends in IT, and other related topics. In Tom’s words:

“The purpose of the list is to provide a log of ’stuff’ of interest to the members. By which I mean references to new articles, books, events, reflection on your own experiences etc., etc. on themes of relevance to Information Research - widely interpreted to include information management, information science, information systems, records management, the Webby end of library management, etc., etc.”

Welcome to the weblog community, Tom!

Mark is at it again, this time listing his posts by quotation, by keying off the cite element of his blockquote and q tags.

Even though I occasionally take issue with Mark’s attitude, I really like what he’s doing, and like that he’s showing another side of the semantic web, the one using the web’s native tongue.

Mark Pilgrim is doing something cool with his weblog posts: by searching the posts for HTML CITE tags, he now has a view of his posts sorted by who he was citing. Very useful. I don’t think he needed the more-semantic-than-thou snarkiness to make his point though.

Paolo on the Semantic web (though he doesn’t know it):

Basically what is happening is that every piece of information, every idea, every concept, every document is getting its own url. You can access it and reuse it.

Via Dan Brickley’s RDFWeb (dev page), I found a link to this most-amazing tool for creating RDF files. RDFAuthor is a Mac OS X application that loads RDF vocabularies and lets you graphically create instances of those schema. I used it to create my new FOAF-enabled about page.

Tinderbox is a Mac OS (Classic only for now) application that lets you manage information in a multiview graphical way; including an outline view and a very cool-looking map view. Tinderbox is also a sort of content-management system and can be used to generate HTML, XML, and syndication files (RSS feeds), as well as consume RSS feeds. As soon as the Mac OS X version comes out I’m gonna seriously check this out.