@DameWendyDBE: This is @jobsworth's blog about bad data and pregnant men that @timberners_lee mentioned in his #www2012 keynote http://t.co/DeSftJcR

The Semantic Web isn't just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data.

Like the web of hypertext, the web of data is constructed with documents on the web. However, unlike the web of hypertext, where links are relationships anchors in hypertext documents written in HTML, for data they links between arbitrary things described by RDF,. The URIs identify any kind of object or concept. But for HTML or RDF, the same expectations apply to make the web grow:

Use URIs as names for things

Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.

When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF*, SPARQL)

Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.

Simple. In fact, though, a surprising amount of data isn't linked in 2006, because of problems with one or more of the steps. This arti

Inventor of the world wide web describes how the Unix-based NeXT Computer he unpacked in 1990 came ready to run - unlike most of the Unix boxes he had to deal with
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has praised Steve Jobs for helping devise the machine that he used to write the software.
Berners-Lee wrote the code for the web while working at the physics research institute Cern in 1991, using a NeXT Computer - the company set up by Jobs after he was ejected from Apple in 1985.
In a post on his personal blog entitled "Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer", Berners-Lee - whom nobody would be likely to call naive or inexperienced with computers - says that "A big thing Steve Jobs did for the world was to insist that computers could be usable rather than totally infuriating".
He says of the NeXT, whose software became the basis for the desktop Mac OS X operating system, and then the iOS software powering the iPhone and iPad, that "The NeXT was brilliant. The NeXT had (arguably too) many things introduced at once -- removable optical storage, Objective C, DSP for sound and movies, Mach kernel, unix for a PC, display Postscript, InterfaceBuilder and so on. Yes, they never got the price down and the optical disks proved unreliable. But Steve and NeXTStep ended up saving Apple, and there must be a lesson that it is worth hanging on to cool things: you never know when they will in fact become mainstream."
He recalls that when he unboxed the NeXT computer in Sept 1990), "it had automatically set up for me as a naive user a unix mail account, which staggered the local unix gurus who normally had to help users of new unix [machines] struggle with sendmail configuration files."
The default mailbox contained an audio file with a welcome from Jobs about his vision, including, says Berners-Lee, "It's not about Personal Computer .. it's about *Interpersonal* Computing". Exactly."
He says that programming the world wide web "was remarkably easy" using the software modules already on board: he created a subclass of the existing software module, added the internet code, added the menus using the NeXT Interface Builder (which still exists today on Mac OS X); after that the code framework for the application was generated by the system. "That is a platform," comments Berners-Lee. "Something which allows you to build things which without it would have been possible, but a lot of work."
He also recalls the fact that the two almost met once, at a meeting of NeXT developers in France. Jobs, however, was running late for his plane back to the US - and had to leave before Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, who worked on the WorldWideWeb.app on NeXT with him, could show it to him.
"Steve was a champion of usable technology - even sexy technology," concludes Berners-Lee, who still uses Apple computers now. "Intuitive on the outside and extensible and cool engineering on the inside. The geeks among us need to be at the same time deeply insistent technically on beautiful, clean, extensible design inside, and utterly impatient as naive end users about the outside."
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"Steve was a champion of usable technology - even sexy technology. Intuitive on the outside and extensible and cool engineering on the inside. The geeks among us need to be at the same time deeply insistent technically on beautiful, clean, extensible design inside, and utterly impatient as naive end users about the outside."

The Happiest Jobs - “In my article on the Ten Most Hated Jobs, there were some surprises. There are also some surprises in the 10 happiest jobs, as reported a General Social Survey by the National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago.” Isn’t it interesting what tops the list…
U.S. Financial Position - This makes it all a little easier to understand, just by removing a few 0’s.
Keller’s Answer - Tim Keller answers the concerns raised by a video he was in. “This interview from three and a half years ago was the first public event like this I had ever done, and a number of my responses were less than skillful. One in particular—the one about whether there is any way of salvation outside of faith in Christ—was misleading and unhelpful.”
The Spirit and the OT - David Murray is beginning a series of blog posts that will discuss the role of the Holy Spirit in Old Testament believers.
How Many Pages on the Internet? -  A lot, apparently. “A group called the World Wide Web Foundation — appropriately founded by Tim Berners-Lee, who pretty much created the internet — is on a quest to figure out, with some degree of certainty, how big the internet really is.”
Love Tap - You’ll enjoy this video.

I have never heard of a sin being committed without knowing full well that I had the seed of it within myself. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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""What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do."" "“I wanted to build a creative space, something like a sandpit where everyone could play together," he says now. "Life was very simple. I was too busy to think about the bigger questions. I was writing specs for the web, writing the code. My priority was getting more people to use it, looking for communities who might adopt it. I just wanted the thing to take off. … If I had made the web into a product, it would have been in somebody's interest to make an incompatible version of it," he says. … We have to start talking about a human right to connect. … We are still learning the ground rules. Certainly, one-to-one time without any electronics is something that people should treasure. … the World Wide Web is an open platform. I'm pleased that it was designed very cleanly so that programs can talk to each other across the net. It means that there is one information space where you can put everything. … If large corporations control our access to the internet and determine which websites we can go to, we will lose its openness and its democratic nature. We can all help to campaign for the right to connect. … The web is now coming of age. We have to look at it and decide how best to use it for science and technology. I think it can do uniquely important things … When I started the web, I wanted to foster creative interconnectivity, in which people from all around the world can build something together. It's about trying to create a sort of human meta-brain - getting connected brains to function as a greater human brain. With these things, we have to trust in humanity. I think human nature, on balance, is wonderful. If we use the web properly, we can enhance that.""

"This report explores key trends and challenges to the right of all individuals to seek,
receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the Internet. The Special
Rapporteur underscores the unique and transformative nature of the Internet not only to
enable individuals to exercise their right to freedom of opinion and expression, but also a
range of other human rights, and to promote the progress of society as a whole. Chapter III
of the report underlines the applicability of international human rights norms and standards
on the right to freedom of opinion and expression to the Internet as a communication
medium, and sets out the exceptional circumstances under which the dissemination of
certain types of information may be restricted. Chapters IV and V address two dimensions
of Internet access respectively: (a) access to content; and (b) access to the physical and
technical infrastructure required to access the Internet in the first place. More specifically,
chapter IV outlines some of the ways in which States are increasingly censoring
information online, namely through: arbitrary blocking or filtering of content;
criminalization of legitimate expression; imposition of intermediary liability; disconnecting
users from Internet access, including on the basis of intellectual property rights law; cyberattacks; and inadequate protection of the right to privacy and data protection. Chapter V
addresses the issue of universal access to the Internet. The Special Rapporteur intends to
explore this topic further in his future report to the General Assembly. Chapter VI contains
the Special Rapporteur’s conclusions and recommendations concerning the main subjects
of the report." https://twitter.com/#!/timberners_lee/statuses/78109081755320320: "RT @webfoundation: UN report: "... universal access to the Internet should be a priority for all states" http://tinyurl.com/UN-Net-Right"

The inventor of the web has said that governments must act to preserve the principle of net neutrality. Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC that legislation may be needed if self-regulation failed.

original 1992-1992 talks

Vía Boing Boing la prueba de que el copyright y las patentes no garantizan la innovación y su ausencia, no tiene ningún efecto en la producción, distribución y circulación de conocimiento científico y cultural.
Su nombre es WorldWideWeb, el primer navegador que existió en el mundo para explorar la red.
WorldWideWeb cambió su nombre más tarde a NEXUS para evitar la confusión con la red, el World Wide Web.
Hace 18 años el Centro Europeo de Investigación Nuclear (CERN) renunció a los derechos de propiedad del código fuente y binario del software WorldWideWeb para que cualquiera pudiera usarlo, modificarlo, duplicarlo y redistribuírlo.
El resultado de esta liberación de conocimiento para el bien de la sociedad entera es incuestionable.
Su creador Tim Berners Lee no sólo creo una forma de navegación vía hipertexto sino que abrió la puerta para el desarrollo de estándares y protocolos de comunicación, como el HTML o HTTP.
Sin duda la cantidad de obras e invenciones en el dominio público tal vez no sean más que las que se encuentan privatizadas por derechos de autor y patentes, pero sí, mucho más relevantes y sobre todo de mayor beneficio para la sociedad.

Imágenes vía CERN
Prueba de los beneficios del dominio público escrita en ALT1040 el 1 May, 2011 por geraldine Enviar a Twitter | Compartir en Facebook

In the UK, Tim Berners-Lee is going to be working with the Broadband Stakeholders Group in order to ensure that any network management schemes used by telecommunications companies don't threaten net neutrality. Berners-Lee is the man who first proposed the idea of the World Wide Web back in 1989, so he is definitely a good person to have on your team. 

BT, Sky and Virgin Media to explain 'two-speed internet' policies at summit on net neutrality
BT, Sky and Virgin Media – along with the rest of Britain's leading internet service providers – will next week outline an industry-wide "code of practice" on how they explain controversial "two-speed internet" policies to customers.
The group will make their announcement at a ministerial summit on net neutrality chaired by culture minister Ed Vaizey – which will also be attended by Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the web and a strong supporter of net neutrality – on 16 March.
The ISPs plan to publish how they manage internet traffic – such as video viewing, music streaming and movie downloading – in comparison to their rivals. That will make clear if they throttle popular services such as the BBC's iPlayer to maintain capacity for all customers on their network.
However, the companies – whose ranks also include the leading mobile operators – will not commit to a minimum service standard, even though some phone companies believe that "there should be a basic commitment to let people browse everything on the internet".
The agreement follows a wide-ranging debate on "net neutrality" – whether ISPs should be allowed to charge content companies such as the BBC or Google for faster delivery to the nation's homes.
BT, TalkTalk and others argue that ISPs should be free to strike deals for more efficient delivery.
Under the plans, described as a "voluntary code of conduct" by people at the meeting, ISPs will be compelled to publish a "scorecard" of how they speed up and slow down traffic and for which companies. But internet providers will still be allowed to throttle public access to video and peer-to-peer services if they wish.
The Broadband Stakeholders Group, which has been facilitating meetings with ISPs on traffic management since late last year, will publish a statement shortly after the meeting. ISPs hope the move will head off an enforced code of practice by the communications regulator Ofcom.
Most ISPs manage traffic at peak times to enable faster speeds for their customers. The BBC has been in fights with ISPs over the amount of bandwidth used to stream its iPlayer service.
In November, the corporation said it would introduce a "traffic light system" on the iPlayer, so that viewers could say whether their connection was being slowed down by providers.
Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, publicly intervened in the net neutrality debate in January, saying an internet "fast lane" could undermine the corporation's responsibility to deliver programming to the nation's homes.
"As the web becomes a vehicle for the transport of richer and richer content, the question of whether all content from all providers is treated equally by the networks becomes ever sharper," he said.
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