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Putting the “End” in EndNote.

Posted: Monday, October 6th, 2008 @ 3:02 pm in data, policy | 3 Comments »

EndNote is a tool used commonly by a number of academics for adding endnote references to their papers. You keep an EndNote library of references, and you can easily add them to your Word document as you type your paper.
So, this is a classic example of a file format that becomes vastly more useful if [...]

Bridging the Clickable and Data Webs

Posted: Monday, July 14th, 2008 @ 10:49 pm in data, web | No Comments »

Over the last few years, I’ve been the Creative Commons representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c). This means that I work with a bunch of great folks on web standards, specifically trying to define solutions that will help Creative Commons. Since 2005, I’ve led a w3c task force on RDFa, which is a [...]

Why I’m switching to Yahoo Search

Posted: Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 @ 7:27 pm in data, web | 15 Comments »

[Disclaimer: Yahoo supports RDFa, which is a specification I've worked on. So, obviously, I'm excited. But hey, that doesn't mean I'm wrong.]
Yahoo recently announced SearchMonkey, and for the first time in 10 years, I have a reason to switch search engines, from Google to Yahoo (In fact, I just did that in Firefox.) Most web-savvy [...]