The United States government and the Semantic Web are a perfect match: imagine all of those senators and representatives, each query-able by age, party affiliation, bills proposed, committee membership, and voting record. For the last few years, I've wanted to collect as much data on the U.S. government as I could, convert it to RDF, and build a site and a web service that make it possible to explore that data. This will be my goal over the next year, and I'll document my progress here on XML.com.

Paul Ford made the coveted artforum top ten this month, guestedited by some gawker vip, for extroverted navel-gazing & a sexy voice on NPR, good writing notwithstanding. The guy can write & seems to ascribe to the Laura Riding Jackson School of Truth; in addition to photoging & scripting; must be eating his vegetables finally, GOP hotdogs aside. O yeah, artforum claims that photoblogs might be the next big thing a year late. I'm still waiting for the Braille touchscreen before I believe anything.
- Prosit! (guest) 9-08-2004 2:58 am

Ford's entry for September 14th honors his debt to one of the greatest white guys of all time: Thomas Hardy. The whom of who....





- Derth (guest) 9-21-2004 8:00 pm

Whoa... that was like out of the matrix reloaded dude: still, it's good to know yer not not around.
- *%! (guest) 9-28-2004 7:43 pm