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Daily Deviation - This Chosen Tree

Deviant Ninja — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:35:32 +0000

This Chosen Tree: Photography, Plants & Nature; Submit on September 7, 2007; This Chosen Tree by =p0rg. “This is the kind of shot that requires a photographers eye to capture. I’m thoroughly convinced that most photographers would have walked by this sight without noticing the visual poetry that was laid out in front of them. It has the great quality of being a beautiful landscape shot with an added conceptual twist. It’s the kind of image that is instantly pleasing to the eyes and mind… I have a good feeling that the majority of people who lay eyes on this shot will fall in love with it.” Suggested by =mrcool256 and Featured by ^KevLewis; Print Available

The More You Know by barnabus

Avice De'veréux — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:20:46 +0000

I hate playing with dinosaurs. Common sense would dictate that they would be excellent poker players, as they are incapable of facial expression. I’ve deduced that when they lunge at you and eat your face, they’re displeased, but I don’t know if you could call that a facial expression per se. It’s like Wild West movies where everybody pulls out a six-shooter, except instead of a gun, it’s a dinosaur, and instead of being shot, your face gets eaten. However, I digress. My original point was that dinosaurs should be good at poker, and yet this is simply not the case. Take, for example, a game I held earlier this very evening.

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Blogging is great - by Tim Berners-Lee

ChaosKaizer — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:08:57 +0000

People have, since it started, complained about the fact that there is junk on the web. And as a universal medium, of course, it is important that the web itself doesn’t try to decide what is publishable. The way quality works on the web is through links.

It works because reputable writers make links to things they consider reputable sources. So readers, when they find something distasteful or unreliable, don’t just hit the back button once, they hit it twice. They remember not to follow links again through the page which took them there. One’s chosen starting page, and a nurtured set of bookmarks, are the entrance points, then, to a selected subweb of information which one is generally inclined to trust and find valuable.

A great example of course is the blogging world. Blogs provide a gently evolving network of pointers of interest. As do FOAF files. I’ve always thought that FOAF could be extended to provide a trust infrastructure for (e..g.) spam filtering and OpenID-style single sign-on and its good to see things happening in that space. Read More