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Nice post Andy. Perhaps I need to review my mindset totally, and rather than thinking of the linkages in the tiered approach, go for multi-dimensional modes to map how 2 items relate/interact with one another. Mutidimensional scaling techniques perhaps?
More on Open Data
So Dave Winer opened up an interesting post on the want of controlling your data. Everyone is crying out for “my data as XML” and this is only a partial requirement of open data. Not only do we need access to the data but full control of that data. As it stands my interpretation of [...]
Free Data, Web 2.0 lock-in and more
Had a cool conversation with Gnome tonight. We started talking about Web 2.0, social networks and then Metcalfe’s Network effect. Then we saw this Oreilly post, which took us back to hadoop. And then there’s a call for a Free Data movement, see above. Finally, the Attention Trust sounds rather familiar to a certain manifesto…. [...]
Local Data and the Open Web
We talk a lot about pervasive storage as part of the open web concept, and it’s interesting to hear a discussion about the future, courtesy El Reg. And if you don’t have 46 minutes to spare, listen to a couple of minutes from 13:00 (the dude with the blocked nose).
New Laptop…
Off out to today… new IBM aka Lenovo laptop… another one to the collection… still not giving up my sweet ass PowerBook though! PPC hee hee! Got the laptop – an IBM T42 – nice machine and I use the word machine literally – ain’t a lump of sex like my powerbook – still it’ll [...]