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Monday, May 12, 2003
 

"Over a month ago Paul Ford published a great essay entitled How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web. After reading it the first time I thought it was a great introduction to the Semantic Web, an idea I had been trying to wrap my head around even since encountering RDF as it is baked into RSS 1.0. I had seen the light and bought into the promise of the Semantic Web. Time passes..."
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"Through the Internet, Microdoc News located and qualified 545 university students to participate in a study of Google searching behavior. We wanted only those who have formally obtained instruction in information seeking, those who use Google for more than 3 hours a week, and people who claim to have good success in finding information they need. Microdoc News then asked these students to use our interface to Google so that we could intercept their queries for analysis. An objective of the study was to find how expert users formulate queries and to see if there is anything that non-expert users can learn from such query building."
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"Searching RSS Channels for News"
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"In this workshop you'll learn how to create, validate, parse, publish, and syndicate your own RSS news channel. The emphasis will be the practical application of the two most popular varieties of RSS for dynamic publishing."
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"Kid's Web goal is to present students with a subset of the Web that is very simple to navigate, and contains information targeted at the K-12 level. Each subject section, contains a list of links to information that is understandable and interesting to schoolkids. There are also links to external lists of material on each subject which more advanced students can browse for further information. "
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