GOOD » Making Sense of the Financial Mess» - We tried to make sense of the financial mess we’re in. As you can see, we couldn’t come up with anything satisfying, so we want your help. We’re offering $500 to the best global finance infographic we receive, as judged by a ...

illumin8 does not have any "hippieness" and still it's kick-ass product for any research organization. Paul Miller summarized nicely semantic web for 2008: “Semantic web has a lot of academic baggage but 2008 has seen a lot of things come together.� via Living Semantic Dream 60's Poster Original...

Hi, we’re Swingly. We’re here because we think you deserve a better search engine. We know you love your favorite search engine. So do we. We’ve always been big fans of Google and Yahoo!, we told our friends about Ask, Clusty, and Powerset, and we like what Microsoft’s doing with Live. But i...

Yesterday I held a session called Semantic Web II: Civic Hacking, the Semantic Web, and Visualization at Transparency Camp. In addition to posting my slides, here’s basically what I said during the talk (or, now on reflection, what I should have said): Who I Am: I run the site GovTrack.us whic...

Came across this cool service to analyze your blogging style called Typealyzer from the ETLMS Blog from Oakland Schools. (nice blogging going on over there, by the way.) So, here is what it said I am. ISTP - The Mechanics The independent and problem-solving type. They are especially attuned to the d...

I now have a crude Lucene index derrived from SKOS data. It is more or less a toy example, but somehow promising also. Example below is a test against FAO’s AGROVOC. Each concept becomes a “document”, with a “word” field containing the prefLabel, and a “uri”...

CMSWire applauds those that take a current solution and put it on its head. Worio, a small search engine, isn't your traditional search engine, in that it all it does is find what you're looking for. While it can do that, Worio also aims to find the things you didn't even know you were looking for. ...

In the not-so-distant future, students will be able to graduate from high school without ever touching a book. Twenty years ago, they could graduate from high school without ever using a computer. In only a few decades, computer technology and the Internet have transformed the core principles of in...

The W3C has worked hard to remove presentational elements from HTML. Unfortunately, old habits don't die easily. This has resulted in some standard generic CSS classes that are contradictory to the intention of HTML and CSS. If you are using classes like .left, .right, and .clear you are guilty as c...

SnappyFingers is a new question and answer search engine that is slowly making waves in the search space. SnappyFingers currently has over 10 million questions in their database and has recently partnered with Kosmix in which you can see Snappy’s results within their searches. SnappyFingers is a g...