The past and present of hypertext
You know, links in the middle of sentences.
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bobdc.blogBob DuCharme's weblog, mostly on technology for representing and linking information. |
January 17, 2016
June 2, 2013
Coming soon: new, expanded edition of "Learning SPARQL"
55% more pages! 23% fewer mentions of the semantic web!
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March 21, 2013
In publishing? Listen to WFMU's "Radio Free Culture" podcast
A new radio show (and podcast) has some great observations about the future of content creation and distribution.
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October 17, 2011
Publishing academic research data
My geeky perspective and some broader perspectives.
July 27, 2011
"Learning SPARQL" now available
In print and ebook formats.
June 1, 2011
My upcoming O'Reilly book: "Learning SPARQL"
Querying and Updating with SPARQL 1.1.
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June 15, 2009
Big legal publishers and semantic web technology
Which one will see the good fit first?
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February 17, 2009
Sorry Facebook, not these blog postings
This is the last one for which you get a "perpetual, fully-paid right to sublicense, modify, edit, create derivate works and distribute".
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February 6, 2009
What can publishing and semantic web technology offer to each other?
That's "semantic web technology", not "the Semantic Web".
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January 29, 2009
Publishers and semantic web technology
A response to Dale Waldt's Gilbane XML posting on semantics and the web.
October 27, 2008
Using the Twitter API to alert myself to swings in the Dow
Or, using a free REST-based service to distribute important financial information on a hot new platform.
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September 26, 2008
tweet tweet
Joining the twittering classes.
May 14, 2008
Reading epub files with the Sony PRS-505 ebook reader
For now, only on the Sony business development guys' 505s.
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April 25, 2008
In single-source publishing, what do you call the source?
March 3, 2008
Batch processing of image files
For free, with ImageMagick.
February 21, 2008
Managing digital rights in the publishing world
As opposed to enforcing them.
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February 13, 2008
If content isn't king, what is?
And how can you turn it into a catchy slogan?
January 24, 2008
Digitization and its discontents
How sloppy is OK for Google scans?
January 11, 2008
Scraping and linked data
Wired Magazine gives scraping the buzzword treatment but remains clueless about the semantic web and linked data.
January 6, 2008
Information wants to be expensive
And, out of context, it can mislead.
March 5, 2007
ERH Tired of Acrobat PDFs. Me too.
PDF is a great format, and it's used way too much.
February 24, 2007
Checking Out Yahoo Pipes
Easy, quick, and useful.
January 8, 2007
Selling content on the Internet, part 1
October 23, 2006
Finding free content
People who should know better often think it's easy.
October 17, 2006
Somewhat customized mass publishing
If you can find an audience of audiences.
March 3, 2006
Easy, professional-looking websites with open source CSS
And, they work well with straightforward XHTML.
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February 3, 2006
Self-publishing bound, hardcopy books
lulu.com plus free XML technology makes it pretty easy these days; I just did it.