Category Archives: Technology

Thoughts on Opera Unite

I met today’s news about Opera’s new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe.
On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps. It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them, shoved a news release down [...]

In defense of microformats

I’d never received an Open Letter until Alan Morrison posted one earlier today in response to an interview I gave to Straight.com about microformats and the (lowercase) semantic web. For the sake of completeness, here’s what he wrote:

Chris, judging from your interview in Straight.com, you seem like a thoughtful guy. But you don’t seem to understand [...]

Stowe Boyd launches Microsyntax.org

Stowe Boyd launched Microsyntax.org this morning and announced that I will be the first member of his advisory board.
Stowe and I have batted around a number of ideas for making posts on Twitter contain more information than what is superficially presented, and this new effort should create a space in which ideas, research, proposals and [...]