A really nice piece by Paul Ford on the history of databases and the dream of the Semantic Web.
Sometimes I get a little wistful. The vision of a world of connected facts, one big, living library, remains beautiful, and unfulfilled.
One thing though: the scrolling on this page is sooooo janky that I had to switch off JavaScript just to read these words comfortably.
Paul Ford sets the record straight on what editors do.
A nice description of RDFa ...but once, just once, I would like to see someone use an example that *isn't* contact details or events—situations already handled by microformats.
This presentation by Steven Pemberton increases in value over time.
Steven Pemberton's talk from XTech 2008 in Dublin is becoming more relevant with each passing day as yet another service shuts down; Pownce, Ficlets, Stikkit...
TIm Berners-Lee explains what the "graph" part of "social graph" means. I'm still not keen on the term but I really love the idea (although I also disagree about the building blocks required today).
An excellent overarching article looking at the current state of microformats adoption.
Ben's thoughts on RDF and microformats, prompted by last weekend's BarCamp shenanigans.
There's now a centralised resource for microformats. Read it, bookmark it, fall in love with the future of the Web.
An XML format from Google that describes the structure of websites. A semantic sitemap.
Ryan talks about microformats as part of a lowercase semantic web.