March 2012
17 posts
Alice and Bob and Linked Data
Alice: Hi, I’m Alice. You might remember me from danbri’s post to public-lod. Bob: Hello again. Alice: So, you want to share your in-house thesaurus in the Web as ‘Linked Data’ in SKOS? Bob: Let’s just assume you’ve handed over the data stick and we’ve got as far as confirming that it’s well-formed RDF/XML, shall we? Alice: Sure thing. Bob: Okay, now what? Alice:...
Mar 29th
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“Mowat told MediaGuardian: “There is no evidence that anything illegal went...”
– From BBC pays 3,000 freelancers through personal service companies. Here’s the rub: the BBC, like most other large corporations, takes people on for short periods under temporary contracts through service companies. This should be no surprise whatsoever to anybody who’s worked… at all. The...
Mar 26th
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European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With... →
WTF
Mar 16th
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International Teletext Art Festival →
Excellent.
Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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Provisioning keys and provenance
This one’s been bugging me for a while. One of the issues which has caused issues for the adoption of standardised PKI in serious applications (such as banking) has been that of provisioning: you don’t want your customers storing the keys to your particular castle in a software keystore because the risk of compromise is too great. The traditional approaches to this have either been to...
Mar 16th
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Academy row school governors sacked by Michael... →
What the hell?
Mar 15th
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“Meanwhile, in partnership with the BBC, Arts Council England is launching The...”
– Mark Thompson’s speech to the Royal Television Society on March 14th 2012. Nice to get a plug. Ithankyew.
Mar 15th
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Fired For Using Birth Control? It Could Be... →
Insane.
Mar 14th
Mar 12th
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2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce... →
Mar 3rd
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Howling raises idea of ‘Freeview Smart’, with... →
Freeview managing director Ilse Howling raised the possibility that connected TV services could reach a mass audience on Freeview without the need for a YouView set-top box at today’s Digital Television Group (DTG) summit in London. Pick a box, any box…
Mar 2nd
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Apple’s TV Dream Revealed →
Guess we’ll see. Or won’t. Who knows?
Mar 2nd
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YouTube shows Silicon Valley how it can beat... →
Mar 2nd
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Blurting it out? →
The war on FOI continues.
Mar 2nd
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Signatories | Coalition for Marriage →
67,962 (at the time of writing) bigoted selfish twazzocks.
Mar 2nd
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Revealed: government plans for police... →
What could possibly go wrong?
Mar 2nd