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18 Nov 2008
Tomorrow I'll work
written by Sergio Fernández at 19h05
I disagree with this mockery, so tomorrow I’ll work.
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25 Oct 2008
ISWC2008 is near
written by Sergio Fernández at 16h58
Tomorrow I’ll travel to Karlsruhe to attend the 7th International Semantic Web Conference. It’ll be my first ISWC, and I expect something even more interesting than the latest ESWC in Tenerife.
Monday will be a stressful day:
- As I told, I’m co-charing (together with John, Uldis and Alex) the
1st workshop on Social Data on the Web (aka SDoW2008). Last week we published the proceedings and the program; Alex generated a cool tagcloud of that material helped by Wordle. The presentation of my demo paper about RDFohloh will be before lunch break. - In parallel, in the afternoon we’ll have another presentation in PICKME2008, the 3rd ExpertFinder workshop.
- And in the evening I’ll attend the LOD Gathering, an informal meeting of people interested in Linked Data.
After that stressful first day in Karlsruhe, I’ll try to enjoy the rest of the conference until Thursday morning when we’ll have to come back home.
- As I told, I’m co-charing (together with John, Uldis and Alex) the
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14 Oct 2008
A busy day...
written by Sergio Fernández at 18h14
… when you realize at mid-morning that you didn’t turn on the music.
In my case at the evening :-S
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11 Oct 2008
Copyleft, people starts to understand it
written by Sergio Fernández at 17h02
For people related with Free Software is easy to understand what copyleft. But it is not so common for people outside of this world. Therefore emails like this (sorry, in Spanish) encouraging:
Hola
Te escribimos para indicarte que hemos utilizado una de tus fotografías con licencia Creative Commons para ilustrar una información de CONSUMER.es EROSKI, concretamente El periodo de carencia en hipotecas y alquileres.
CONSUMER.es EROSKI es el diario del consumidor editado por FUNDACIÓN EROSKI. La cooperativa Eroski es una asociación de consumidores que dedica sus esfuerzos desde hace más de 20 años a la formación e información de los consumidores. Su labor es analizar la vida cotidiana, siempre desde la óptica de los derechos del consumidor. CONSUMER.es EROSKI no tiene ánimo de lucro.
Por supuesto, en el pie de foto hemos firmado tu fotografía y hemos enlazado con tu página, para que nuestros lectores (más de 3 millones cada mes, según la Oficina de la Justificación de la Difusión, OJD) puedan acceder a ella.
Recibe un cordial saludo y muchas gracias.
Mila García, CONSUMER.es EROSKI
Summarizing: a magazine took one of my photos in flickr to illustrate an article. As its license says, they are free to share and remix my work while they attribute it to the original author (aka me). And the did it! And although the photo is nothing spectacular, I’m very proud o have the opportunity to contribute to any initiative aligned with copyleft philosophy.
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27 Sep 2008
Penguin Logic
written by Sergio Fernández at 19h43
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23 Sep 2008
Fundamentos Web 2008
written by Sergio Fernández at 22h01
Fundamentos Web is probably the most important event in Spanish about the Web. Organized by CTIC Foundation and W3C Spanish Office, the fourth edition brings the opportunity of seeing live relevant figures of Web design and development with standards in the national and international field.
I’d like to go…, unfortunately in that dates I’ll be in Karlsruhe at the ISWC2008 presenting two papers. But if you can, I recommend you to attend Fundamentos Web 2008 (the registration is still open) and enjoy Asturias.
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4 Sep 2008
Searching in nomasnumeros900.com with Google and Firefox
written by Sergio Fernández at 20h51
In Spain telecommunications market is really annoying. If you have an ADSL line they say that you can call by free to all the land lines. But that’s not really true: there is a special kind on numbers called 900 (mainly 901 and 902) that you must pay, not so much, but you must pay. The funny thing is that number is just a commercial number on a normal land line. But at the end, if you don’t know the real number, you should have to pay that kind of calls. The problem is that companies don’t share that free number, That’s the reason that motivated nomasnumeros900.com (no more 900 numbers), a collaborative wiki where people can put the numbers that they are discovering. In two years the collected thousands of useful numbers.
But the problem is that they chose MediaWiki, and they are trying to use its really bad search engine to search that phone numbers. Many months ago I decided not to use more its search form, and I switched to Google (with a domain restriction) to search in nomasnumeros900.com. You can make queries that with MediaWiki don’t have answer. And today, in a while, I decided to write a search plugin for Firefox to do it faster. It was really easy, the documentation is really good and you have a nice validator.
It’s my first search plugin, so if you find any error, please tell me. And enjoy it!
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3 Sep 2008
Google Chrome prefers XHTML
written by Sergio Fernández at 08h53
The blogosphere is restless about Chrome, the new open source browser developed by Google. But I´m not going to discuss its software design, its performance or its usability, there are many people talking about it. I´ll talk about a technical detail: Google Chrome prefers XHTML (application/xhtml+xml) instead the classic HTML (text/html).
How to know it? As probably you know in HTTP there is a header called Accept to specify the format types which are acceptable. Requesting this service developed by Richard Cyganiak with Chrome, we can get the value of that header:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml, text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Good to know it… Microsoft should learn.
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27 Aug 2008
Information architecture
written by Sergio Fernández at 21h38
Information architecture is not about surface glamor; it’s about mission-critical infrastructure. And infrastructure has widespread and long-term impact. The ripples of our designs spread outwards, affecting the work of interface designers, programmers, authors, and eventually users… As we design the legacy information architectures of tomorrow, we should consider our responsibility to the big here and the long now.
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville (via Kingsley Idehen)
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23 Jul 2008
SDoW2008, deadline extended
written by Sergio Fernández at 16h43
The 1st workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008), co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008), has extended its deadline date. Now submission are welcomed until August 4th of 2008. For further information, please visit its webpage or contact us.
