Monday, June 02, 2003

New FCC ruling... "Gillmor on FCC media concentration ruling. The ever-prescient Dan Gillmor posted a particularly eloquent column in advance of today's FCC action:" "Where do we go from here? We, the people, need to understand what's happening, and why. Then we need to get angry. We need to get organized, and take the fight back to the halls of power." [via Boing Boing Blog] 8:32:12 PM    comment []  trackback []

Haystack "The MIT Haystack project released some preliminary code. If RDF is a grand unified theory of information, Haystack is the universal RDF browser. The Eclipse-like UI eschews dialog boxes for an array of panes; this cleverly eliminaties modality. It's also surprisingly polished for an academic research project. Potential hackers beware; I suspect much of the code is written in Adenine, the secret love-child of Python and RDF." [via Hack the Planet through Marc's Voice] This looks pretty interesting.  I'm glad they had screenshots of the preliminary software.  Although the computing requirements are a little bloated... 8:21:28 PM    comment []  trackback []