“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” —  André Gide

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I originally sent this post simply as an email to friends and former colleagues. I was encouraged to post it for posterity, so here it is. 
John McKinley recently posted on his blog about AOL Search - it’s a positive view of the progress made over the last several years, and the fact that it largely went unnoticed in the market. 
It [...]

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I tend to reject buzzwords, and semantic web is a term that’s as buzz-y as they come. The best ideas end up buzz-ified, though… I’ll do my dissertation on the Phases of the Web here soon, providing a different view on Web 2.0, etc. But today I am thinking about data, content… how to unlock [...]

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I’ve been thinking about blogging for a long time, but haven’t jumped in until now.
Seth Goldstein and I started a new conference series - Open Data - which is all about opportunities and challenges around the proliferation of API’s, feeds, etc.
OpenData2007 was beyond my expectations, way beyond. The group was diverse - journalists, technologists, VC’s, [...]

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i seem to have lost my original post. will redo this today. until then, welcome! look back for more later.

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