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Social Semantic Web – New Publication Out
The “Social Semantic Web” is here – yay! The book of the same name, edited by Andreas Blumauer (right) and Tassilo Pellegrini, is now available in stores. Another contributor from
A plea for quality – a chance for the Web?
When I read in the news that one of the most influential contemporary literary critics of German literature, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, had just refused a German TV-Award – on stage, as
ESWC – Video Lectures about Semantic Wikis
Sebastian Schaffert, coordinator of the KiWi project, just pointed readers of his blog to the video of his ESWC-Lecture “Semantic Wikis – IkeWiki – A Semantic Wiki for Collaborative Knowledge
What the Semantic Web can learn from Open Hypermedia
I didn’t know about the Open Hypermedia protocol (OHP) until I read a blog post today by Dave Millard, a Lecturer of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK.
The condemned live longer
Two days ago, the Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary — and inadvertently published it in the process. Embarrassing faux pas or top example of
Common vs. Marginalized Knowledge – a Potential Showstopper for the Semantic Web?
Earlier today I published an interview that my colleague Marion Fugléwicz-Bren led with Corinna Bath from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Science, Technology and Society (IAS-TS). Corinna Bath is
Semantics and Universal Metaphors of Time
A conference at Freie Universität Berlin in the end of June was dedicated to “NOW AND THEN. Temporal Experience in Film, Literature and Philosophy†(Jetzt und dann. Zeiterfahrung in Film,
Chasing and understanding memory, intelligent synapses and the concept of lying (on the web).
It’s hard not to be fascinated by questions like how the brains are working, how memories emerge and whether synapses can be intelligent? On the web, the idea of the
Culture is interactivity
Why don’t we think of coalition negotiations in a new dress: Maybe these are the topics we should rather discuss in our governments – all throughout Europe… The Brazilian government
Like a Jigsaw Puzzle: The Similarities between Man and Semantic Machines
An interview with Herbert Hrachovec, conducted by SWC’s own Marion Fugléwicz-Bren, drew my attention to an article by Hrachovec in which he explored what he calls the “irreconcilable similarities” between