- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:23:26 +0200
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
so I can be obnoxious in real time? woo-hoo On 11 April 2010 19:07, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote: >> Re ranting, there's always IRC for that; #swig irc.w3.org is as good a >> place as any to let off steam... > > Oops, got IRC server details wrong. > > SWIG IRC is #swig on irc.freenode.net > > For those who haven't stumbled across this, we have 24x7 logs of > RDF-related chitchat and link-sharing going back to 2001. See > swig.xmlhack.com/ for a Web-based view of shared links of the day, > plus historical archives. > > Also http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/swig/ has #swig archives back 'til > 2004, and the precessor #rdfig http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/rdfig/ > going back to 2001. Also #foaf since 2003, > http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/foaf/ > > While I'm mentioning it, nearby you can also find an aggregate of > RDF-related blogs, http://planetrdf.com/ > > For those who don't know what IRC is, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat is probably a good > start. It's a text-based group chat system from the olden days of the > Internet (ie. not only before Twitter and Facebook, but also before > the Web), and still pretty popular. Alongside various SWIG regulars in > #swig you can usually find an IRC channel for most big opensource > projects on the Freenode network, or create your own easily enough > just by joining it and convincing others to do likewise. It's > suprisingly useful, easily rather time consuming, and a nice > complement to mailing-list based discussions. In the earlier days of > RDF/SemWeb we used to have occasional "scheduled topical chats" - see > http://esw.w3.org/ScheduledTopicChat - where things like the RDF > Calendar vocab, RDF Basic Geo vocab http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/ and > pre-SPARQL query collaboration happened. It probably wouldn't hurt to > get back in the habit... > > cheers, > > Dan > > -- http://danny.ayers.name
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