- From: Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:29:06 +0000
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
Semantic Web Interest Group, [sidenote] Hello, been busy here getting some corporations off the ground. If anybody has any stories or experiences regarding starting SW tech ventures, please feel free to contact me. The specific applications I'm exploring are primarily education technology and secondarily market-based technology. I'm very interested in the concept of B2B collaborations, so feel free to contact also in that regard. [/sidenote] Some ideas occurred to me for an in-demand project that can help get SW tech more towards end users. It has to do with link varieties and blogs. Two link varieties that would certainly be useful in the blogosphere are: http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/type#agree http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/type#disagree With the document resembling: a href=”http://yourblog.com/someentry.html” blognet:type=”http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/type#agree” or a href=”http://yourblog.com/someentry.html” blognet:type=”blognet:agree” or a href=”http://yourblog.com/someentry.html” blognet:type=”agree” (notation used for remainder) With some code provided to vendors (blogger, wordpress, ...), UI could allow users to insert a variety of links into their blogs. The reason I think this technology would be readily adopted and utilized is that bloggers enjoy looking at the stats of their blogs and the interconnectivity of blogs, in general. Getting some SW tech in there provide more robust interconnectivity and stats via blogging search engines, and the functionality and web-based UI integrated into software for this isn't difficult to imagine. At present, in the above context, I would comment on your blog that I agreed with something that you said and possibly put a link in the comment to the blog entry where I discussed my ideas on the topic. With this link variety idea, even using the minimal ontology described above, the link could speak for itself. That is, via a blogging search engine or dashboard provided by the blog service provider, a blog author could find entries with a variety of relationships to the entries of their blog, navigating with great convenience. With the use of a comma in the type field, multiple types can describe a single directed link between two blog entries. For example: a href=”http://yourblog.com/someentry.html” blognet:type=”agree, commentingon” A complication occurs in multi-topic blog entries. A user may want to agree with a portion of a blog entry or a specific topic. It might be possible to reference aspects of blog entries using the folksonomic tagging system, for example: http://blogger1.com/blogentry.html#web_2.0 could be the URI relating to the aspect of the blog entry relating to “web 2.0”. In this way I could agree with portions of a multi-topic blog entry. I'm not certain how the blogging systems handle the '#' in links, so another idea might resemble: a href=”http://yourblog.com/someentry.html” blognet:aspects=”web 2.0” blognet:type=”agree, thisentrydiscusses” (with a constraint that the comma seperated text in the blognet:aspects attributes are folksonomy tags or otherwise metadata of the referenced resource) Just some preliminary ideas... this aspect-based link variety idea has some interesting application to folksonomy. I have a good feeling about SW tech and blogs; I think there is end user demand for link varieties and the resulting resource would be additionally useful to end users. So far I've come up with five link types that I think would be popular: http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/type#agree (the author agrees with an aspect or entirety of another blog entry or resource) http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/type#disagree (the author disagrees with an aspect or entirety of another blog entry or resource) http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/type#commentingon (this resource motivated the author to write a blog entry) http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/type#invitetoview (the author recommends visitors read the resource linked to) http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/type#thread (the author is responding to a blog resource in a manner similar to a mailing list's Re:) The fifth is interesting because search service providers may track these links to present organized views of distributed content with tree structures similar to mailing lists or forums, allowing for new methods of content navigation and discovery. It is possible the tree structure could be more robust, with the following example: a href=”http://yourblog.com/someentry.html” blognet:aspects=”aspect1, aspect2” blognet:type=”thread” [ALSO] End users may (?) enjoy emoticon-like reaction links to resources: http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/reaction#amazed a href=”http://somewebsite.com/newproduct.html” blognet:type=”invitetoview” blognet:reaction=”amazed” [ALSO] End users may (?) enjoy a rating built into a link http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/rating#cool a href=”http://somewebsite.com/article.html” blognet:type=”invitetoview” blognet:rating=”cool” [ALSO] It may be possible to utilize these or other attributes on blockquotes Any other ideas for link types for bloggers? What do you think about this idea to offer code to blogger, wordpress, etc to allow end users to utilize link varieties via SW tech? Cheers, Adam Sobieski _________________________________________________________________ Can you find the hidden words? 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