The death of the URL. Prelude You take the blue pill and the story ends.
You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. The Web of Data: Creating Machine-Accessible Information. In the coming years, we will see a revolution in the ability of machines to access, process, and apply information.
This revolution will emerge from three distinct areas of activity connected to the Semantic Web: the Web of Data, the Web of Services, and the Web of Identity providers. These webs aim to make semantic knowledge of data accessible, semantic services available and connectable, and semantic knowledge of individuals processable, respectively. In this post, we will look at the first of these Webs (of Data) and see how making information accessible to machines will transform how we find information. The amount of information and services available is growing exponentially. The Future of Work: Noded. Recently, I’ve been talking to many local journalists about the unfolding implosion of the newspaper industry and its implications for their profession.
As the industry struggles to adapt to a world which is moving onto the web, journalists are not only learning to blend social media with traditional reporting, but as UK-based multimedia journalist Adam Westbrook explains, some are also exploring how distributed work teams could replace the newsroom. Westbrook’s piece introduces the philosophy of Noded working: principles for forming distributed teams for particular projects. The Noded concept is explained in a book. A downloadable preview describes the philosophy as: