SquatCrunch

Shelley over at the Burningbird is changing things again! Try starting at the top, or at Bb’s RealTech, or the consolidated site feed, and meander for awhile.

Traveling far and wide with deep-linking and side-tripping. How far will you go?

Just Shelley in Neighborly Linking points to Sheila Lennon links pointing to an article titled, How to Remove Tourists from your Photos, a PhotoShop hack.

Side-tripping from the Sheila Lennon link Noted: Smashing the Clock, points to the article on Yahoo Biz, “The Changing Workplace” by Michelle Conlin, of BusinessWeek Online.

Side tripping from there reaps, CNNMoney.com’s article Best Places to Live, 2006, which brings us to #5 on the the 10 best places list, Cary, NC and the

• Pros: Great schools, good arts scene
• Con: Road crews everywhere.

And finally, side-tripping from there to Sperling’s Best Places profile of Cary, NC.

Oh no, I am late for an appointment, gotta run. Lucky for you as this post just started sprouting wings and spreadin’ the news. It could have gotten really ugly.

Deep-linking has been brought to you by the “Hand-Made” semantic web.

On the Semantic Web (SemWeb), computers do the browsing (and searching, and querying, and…) for us. The SemWeb enables computers to seek out knowledge distributed throughout the Web, mesh it, and then take action based on it. Take an analogy: the current web is a decentralized platform for distributed presentations, while the SemWeb is a decentralized platform for distributed knowledge. Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the W3C standard for encoding knowledge.

What is RDF?
Via XML.com
Updated by Joshua Tauberer, July 26, 2006
Updated by Dan Brickley, 2001
Originally written by Tim Bray, 1998

Book Resources:
Practical RDF, by Shelley Powers

Homework assignment:
How is RDF related to the Semantic Web? Is it?

The Semantic Web archive at Burningbird (the link is no longer live). Sorry, try starting at the top of Burningbird.

Update: 04/28/08 - Shelley over at Burningbird is cha-cha-cha changing things again! Try starting at the top, or at Bb’s RealTech, and meandering for awhile.

In the excellent post and discussion category …

From a comment by Michael Bernstein to a post about Techmeme selectivity at Burningbird .

Still, the web continues to grow, to the point that not only can we not keep up with new stuff, but we can’t even keep up with the list of new sources of stuff.

What I would like to see is any approach for getting the ‘best’ stuff to float to the top of ever-growing sea of results that is completely different than the monkey-status proxy measures we are currently using.

There are years of content, content, content spilling over into the most interesting discussions at Shelley Powers’ sites:

Update: 06/06/07 - The Burningbird web site IS back, aha. Shelley Powers has been/is consolidating all her sites back to the Burningbird.net domain.
Many of the technology links redirect correctly, but please let her know if you encountered problems finding an article. Tracking Buringbird’s archived posts is a full-time job! Cheers, Shelley.

Mad Techie Woman, primarily related to tech. [think this one is closed].
Just Shelley, personal weblog.

Update: 04/06/07 - the original link to Planet Powers is no longer valid.
Planet Powers, an aggregation of Shelley’s current sites.
MissouriGreen. Coming up? An online magazine about Missouri (photos and stories and histories, as well as current issues and events).
Straight shooting at The Bb Gun, static copy for story links?

The final flight? Burningbird closed up shop this past summer. Still hoping for a restart of the Bird!
Photography, musings, technical information, women in tech, RSS, RDF, weblogging, meta data, and informative discussions.

Homework assignment:
Will the Burningbird take flight once again?

In a discussion about RDF, SemWeb and more, Mad Techie Woman points to a post by Sheila Lennon who writes about what she sees as the semantic web:

Real world: When restaurants are online in realtime (yet to happen), my computer could display Providence restaurants serving cordon bleu tonight at what prices, ask me to choose one (around when?) then make a reservation, reserve a portion of chicken cordon bleu for me, and notify the restaurant’s computer if I’m hung up in traffic.

Exactly! Beam me up Scottie, and keep my dinner warm.

Un-innovate my UnBox via UNINNOVATE:
Did you know that the license agreement lets Amazon remotely delete all of your movies off of your computer for any reason it wants without notifying you? And that is just the beginning.

Update: 04/28/08 - Original link below no longer valid. Now points to main page at Burningbird. Search on.
Un-break my UnBox:
Shelley over at the Burningbird posted about unBox uninstall issues she experienced.

Shelley of Burningbird wrote a nice article on Installing and Customizing Planet.

Update: the ‘Installing and Customizing Planet’ link now returns 404 page at Burningbird site. Search on.

I tested the Planet ‘river of news’ application but ran into Python library issues on my server. The server is running Python V2.4.1 which should be ok, but I could not get past the lib error to get Planet going.

Update: 04/28/08 - “girl-geeks-fact-or-oxymoron” link (geek girls!) at Burningbird has moved. I know not where. Ask Shelley?

To link (geek girls!) or not to link, that IS the question. Heh, its a link-fest.

Should you join the WWFD (What would Frank Do) Meme? It is all about Frank Paynter and some link love. Hard to follow the link train, but I think McD over at the “I DID … but I wouldn’t recommend it” weblog started this post, comment, posts, comments, posts, comments, posts meme.

Does McD know that WWFD is also World Wide Future Development? McD? Isn’t he the one who keeps creating weblogs on wordpress, and then deleting them? mcdmcblog.wordpress.com

Update: McD did it again, he deleted his IDID site. We tracked him down though, at Blogocide. Update: He has since closed Blogocide too!

Link Frank to find out What would Frank do? Frank’s a nice guy and he loves links, I think.

There is also WWFD: ‘What would FUNDAMENTALISTS Do?’ Oh no, and ‘What would FEDERLINE Do?’ Does anyone really care what Federline would do? We ran out of links per post as allotted by our ISP, so you are on your own here.

Update: 04-06-07
Shelley, is back at the BurningBird. Yes!

Tracking Shelley is a full time job, :)

What’s hip, what’s new, what is the latest in the blog world. For some long time webloggers, it appears to be ‘giving up blogging’.
Just a sampling, there are many more!

1. Russell Beattie put his weblog to bed.
2. Elisabeth Donovan quit blogging for the Miami Herald.
3. Awhile back Dave Winer of ScriptingNews said he’ll quit blogging (at the end of this year?).
4. Shelley Powers closed the Burningbird. Bye-bye Birdie!

Which of this list is still blogging. Well folks, that is your homework, hence the missing links.