PULL

Just started David Siegel's new book, Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web...
Have been thinking a great deal about information, reading, books, internet, libraries, knowledge management basically. I'm finding that I am not reading books less these days, but with computers and the internet, I'm reading a bit differently.

I'm reading in both medium simultaneously. I'm broadening my reading experience by in-filling from the web. It is a brave new world with lots of scary big brothers and uncle sams looking over our shoulders, but it's a world where governments will be more transparent along with our personal lives. As with most things, we've got to take the good with the bad and make the most of it.

Back to PULL. Here's one of the ways I'm reading these days, I guess we could call it reading for future reference. (In the not too distant future, I'm sure this blog post exercise will become unnecessary as all the links from the book will be made available as part of the publishing package. But until then, here's the wysiwyg where "structured data comes out of the deep web and onto the open web, forming the foundation of the semantic web."

sciencecommons.org
ARTstor.org
McMaster.com
NIN.com
rhapsody.com
LiveLeak.com
crunchpad.com
jolicloud.com
freebase.com
semantic-mediawiki.org
instedd.org
thepowerofpull.com
commonapp.org
LarKC
Cyc
umbel.org
viaf.org
id.loc.gov
neighborrow.com Zoe member of readers anon???
onix.com pub format
zillow.com
transparensee.com
adaptiveblue.com
zantaz.com
daylife.com
autonomy.com
healthline.com
microformats.com
seamless.com
siri.com
delicious-monster.com
goodguide.com
dpreview.com
linkeddata.org
grainger.com
superpages.com
youtube.com/watch?v=voAntzB7EwE
xbrl comp lang
fpml comp lang
rubee new rfid
Dvorak keyboard
jolicloud.com
optimus maximus keyboard
crunchpad.com
liveleak.com
yammer.com
revolutioncard.com
ibm.com/think
fairtax.org
iousathemovie.com
y-t-c.com
e-patients.net
monitor.creativecommons.org
digital signatures
Ambient Findability Peter Morville
identityblog.burtongroup.com
srmsblog.burtongroup.com
identityblog.com
dataportability.org
mismo.org
trulia.com
streeteasy.com
dwellicious.com
ambient intelligence
3ds.com
legalzoom.com
hResume microformat
voice.google.com
inames.net
w-41.com
spime.com space + time (sterling, b)
widetag.com
gsi commerce

Web 3.0 = context Semantic web Get used to it. It's upon us.
Except for content metadata or format metadata. Intended use of data or content can determine designation.
Web 3.0 = smart data or metadata: maps, menus, manuals, receipts, invoices, catalogs...etc. The only thing that isn't metadata is content.

"...if you're not findable, you're not relevant. ...Bot to be relevant, you'll have to make a difference in people's lives." Peter Morville

"...the solution to the overabundance of information is more information." David Weinberger

"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future." Eric Hoffer

Today at the gym, in the sauna, young woman reading an ebook on her iphone. Welcome 21st century readers, this twit's for you.