Gnodal Journal

Here’s my last 6 days posts to del.icio.us:

*HP SemanticWeb Publications
*Jena Semantic Web Framework
*k-collector evectors
*Semantic Blogging Project : Knowledge Media Institute
*Medical Literature Discovery – list of tools
*Mapping Knowledge Domains, Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium
*Scholarly Ontologies Project: Knowledge Media Inst., Open U. (UK)
*Belvedere
*Alberto J. Ca̱as РInstitute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)
*Comparison of wiki software – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
*The World We Want
*Nexist
*Euro CSCL 2001
*Multiple Episode Protocol Analysis program
*CSCA Workshop: Discussion Papers
*CSCA: Computer-Supported Collaborative Argumentation
*ClaiMaker: Internetworked Argument Mapping (ScholOnto Project)
*WIT Tools | Armadillo
*Melita – overview
*Human-Computer Interaction Lab – Maryland
*Piccolo Home Page
*Kerika – Home
*The Smarter Alternative to Email
*NECSI Discussion Forum
*Main Page – NECSIWiki
*New England Complex Systems Institute
*OpenAjax Alliance
*Meat and potatos; IA and UI – MozDawg on DAV and Docs
*AurigaDoc
*Global Education Learning Community (GELC)
*OWL Institute | Open Education Resources
*John F. Sowa – publications
*The Peirce Edition Project
*Homesteading the Noosphere
*The Digital Universe – Digital Universe Foundation
*The “Citizendium”
*CharGer – A Conceptual Graph Editor
*Common Logic Working Group Documents
*Advantage
*SemanticWeb.org: Welcome to the Semantic Web Community Portal
*Ontology – John F. Sowa
*VUW Computer Science Tech Reports: By year (06)
*Altova Developer Portal – technology information and resources for developers
*Joint Research & Development – Queensland
*Altova MapForce – building Web services
*Batik SVG Toolkit
*Tockit — Goals
*Galicia Lattice Builder Home Page
*Formal Concept Analysis Homepage
*Camelis
*Perseus Digital Library
*Jython – Python under Java
*Python Tutorial
*Bootstrap Institute: Engelbart papers
*Automatic Support for Enterprise Modelling and Workflow – AKT
*ConcepTool from University of Aberdeen – AKT
*[T-Rex] Sheffield
*Dissident Voice: A Radical Newsletter In the Struggle For Peace and Social Justice
*Political/Social 2006 mindfully.org
*Brahms – Agent iSolutions
*Enactable Models Project
*GATE Projects
*ANNIE – Open Source Information Extraction – AKT – Technologies – Sheffield
*MIAKT — Medical Imaging with Advanced Knowledge Technologies
*Epistemics – a company specialising in Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
*Pascal Challenge – Assessing ML methodologies to Extract Implicit relations from documents Challenge
*Funding for Researchers -EPSRC UK
*EPSRC Website
*BlueHost.Com
*Talk Digger
*FeedShow
*RAP – Rdf API for PHP V0.9.4 – Home
*OpenLink Virtuoso: Open-Source Edition: Main.VOSIntro
*sioc-project.org | Semantically-Interlined Online Communities
*Semantic Radar for Firefox | sioc-project.org
*Ping the Semantic Web.com – Share your RDF documents with the World!
*Forum search with BoardTracker.com
*DOAP: Description of a Project
*SIOC Ontology Specification
*Active Navigation :: Information Management Solutions
*advanced knowledge technologies – AKT
*Armadillo knowledge mining system – architecture.htm
*CS Aktive Space – AKT
*Hyphen.info
*plazes – we know where
*SwarmTeams
*BuildV1.com connecting entrepreneurs
*Kiva
*Odd Wiki WikiNet: FrontPage
*Observer Group
*Bowdens Media Monitoring Limited
*Semaine de la Connaissance / authors – SdC 2006
*Brainfingers
*Minding the Planet

In a comment to Eric Meyer’s “Angry Indeed” I replied, in part,

“[T]there’s something else operating here too: my gawd, maybe you don’t realize the awe you inspire … “Box Model Hack” and such. You and tantek? Guys like you are what inspired me (past tense, note) to keep sloggin’. (So on the day I set up and read through a 250 page technical document and produce with a long list of quibbles large and small. *shrug* Nobody much cares? Fine. But I know that I’ve guarded your back. Now’days you got bigger fish to fry? *shrug* Hey, no blame. But: I quit. Past tense. Done deal … a long while back.)”

On a whim I visited Tantek’s Thoughts and found, completely in keeping with the epoch, “Fight bad ideas not people“, which reads in part:

“We are not at war.

Ideas are at war. We are merely their pawns and canonfodder.

Fighting a war by fighting people is merely attacking symptoms rather than causes.

In the long run, fighting a war by fighting people is only as effective as fighting a disease by fighting the people that have contracted it rather than fighting the disease itself.”

Now it just so happens that (with Krisna Dass louder than I dare in the background) I was thinking, “I was on the hippie bus in ’68 and ’69, I trained airborne infantry (49th Loyal Edmonton Regiment) and did communications intelligence … and my sympathy is more with the mohawk-haired gunman than with the snide simpering bougeois who routinely castrate democracy.” So I thought I’d share a bit of that with Mr. Tantek.

Ha! Try reaching him … he’s a star … the “Comment” at the base of his posts links to nothing, and there’s no proletarian “Contact” to be found; mere email is beneath him. Noooooooo, such as he aren’t to be triffled with by mere citizens.

To yuppies all I say: Fuck you and the horse your rode in on. Yuppies … diseased pretenders to artistocracy … full of entitlement but with not a glimmer of what nobility means.
To pseudo-goths and skin heads, bristling with antagonism and agression: “Who the fuck do you think you are? Get the fuck outta my face!

“Fight bad ideas not people”? Ok … the idea you manifest and perpetuate is what I fight. Is all.

p.s. I was a Trotskyist, a card-carrying of the International Socialists. And let me tell you: compared to what we have long known about realpolitik tantek’s well-intentioned prattlings are a child’s babbling. But then hey, him and his friends can’t arrange decent tech_docs, so really *shrug* they’re amateurs.

Intuit Press Release- Intuit and Google Forge Alliance

: “For the first time, small businesses can use QuickBooks to market themselves online by listing their businesses on Google Mapsâ„¢, creating and managing advertising campaigns with Google AdWordsâ„¢ and posting their products for sale on Google through Google Baseâ„¢ – a free product listing service.”

David Card – Google-Intuit Integration Promising:

“If there’s anything remotely like a univesal small business platform, it’s QuickBooks.”

Ayup …

Almost exactly two years ago, having watched a brilliant business opportunity drain down the gutter (Buddy’s divorce took a turn for the worst and he crawled into a bottle; he drank away his little company’s payroll, leaving me on the hook for what I’d done to start our collaboration.) I left Nova Scotia and returned to Alberta after 20 years away. One of the very first things I did was to snoop Intuit to find someone to chat with … and I did find someone … “AlphaDog” I’ll call him. My pitch? That Intuit, with QuickBooks, was positioned to use Web2.0 in a way that would rival SourceForge.

But I’m just me. I can’t say my idea perculated up to catalyze this deal. I can, however, say that in the absence of intelligent risk capital (most VC is bait; I’m no fish) folk like me are fiddling in the streets. Oh-wooops, no … it’s worse: I’ve often made ready cash busking, but this is Alberta, and I don’t play red-neck music.

SNAFU