- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:59:56 -0400
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- CC: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, Karen Myers <karen@w3.org>, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, 'W3C SWEO IG' <public-sweo-ig@w3.org>
Ivan Herman wrote: > [ taking lee out for a moment...] > > The look cool. But we have to be a little bit careful. The presentations > are done in a very easy-to-understand way... for English or American > audience. English / American speaking and listening audience initially, but I do expect a lot of multilingual derivatives (meshups). > I am not sure that would be true outside this circle. Or > outright problematic. For example, we have to check whether some of his > standards hand movements are not offensive in other cultures (he has a > movement he uses for 'good' which made me thinking...) > I think we can live with some of these imperfections bearing in mind the overall value of this kind of communication :-) Kingsley > Ivan > > Kingsley Idehen wrote: > >> All, >> >> Quick FYI. >> >> I have been trying to track down Lee ever since I encountered his >> "Common Craft" series of "Plain English" video casts. I finally made >> contact with Lee yesterday and had a detailed chat about a "Semantic >> Data Web" based "Common Craft" video highlighting "Linked Data". >> >> To get a feel for Lee's work please watch the following: >> >> 1. Wikis in Plain English <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY> >> 2. Social Bookmarking in Plain English >> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU> >> 3. RSS in Plain English <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU> >> 4. Social-Networking in Plain English >> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc> >> >> I am going to work with Lee re. a "Linked Data" segue from each of the >> video casts above. Of course, much more can be done, e.g. GRDDL and >> other related efforts for unveiling the unobtrusive nature of the >> "Semantic Data Web" manifestation, as part of general education and >> outreach via SWEO and the W3C in general. >> >> > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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