http://www.notablesoftware.com/Papers/thesdefabs.html
sayke: |electronic voting systems can be either secure (tamper proof) or anonymous (as in secret ballot), but not both
veeg: interesting work on the philosophy and technicalities behind argumentation and agents^H^H^H^H^H^Hbots
zool: sayke should like this, automating group decision-making under uncertainty
zool: i feel uneasy about his emphasis on protocol design
zool: but then what do i know, i'm just a dope-induced, babbling self-promotionalist :/
<hex> certified, stamped, filed, locked, keys, code, cypher, text, word, sign, sound, vision, sight, smell, touch, feel, experience, imagine, desire, hate, love, heart, blood, bone, kidney, spleen, brain BRANEZ BRANEZ BRANEZ
zool: i sent this response to a massively cc'd mail to all the geek-oriented collectives i've been involved in, and some i havent
zool: i got a nice reply from the organiser
zool: and a bitchslap from a girl in amsterdam, saying...
zool: you sound like you smoke too much dope, and are looking for an excuse to talk your own shit, gain attention... whatever. These kinds of over analysis is what grinds down every little simple and useful initiative. Just to let you know that that it is getting really old and sickening.
zool: i hope i dont really sound like that, but it is hard
zool: anyway i put my thing on techcoop.info anyway, and will encourage others to do the same anyway, despite myself
hex: shiny!
Metadata Principles and Practicalities
hex: "aspects of the emerging ecology of metadata creation and management on the Internet"
hex: summary by Victor Lombardi of article he's written
hex: with link to said article
hex: focused on CMS
zool: If you start to learn about ontologies you can soon find yourself mixed up in the fields of philosophy and artificial intelligence. You can safely ignore these as they aren't relevant to using ontologies for powering websites.
zool: love it