<a href="http://www.ephemera.org/archives/382.html"><img src="http://www.ephemera.org/images/382link.jpg" width="250" height="250" border="1" alt="Photo by Derek Powazek, ephemera.org" title="Photo by Derek Powazek, ephemera.org" style="border: solid 1px #000000;" align=left hspace=8></a>We try and make it to the Ferry Building Farmer's Marlet whenever we can.

We used to live across the street at the Golden Gateway apartments - so I consider that my neighborhood - in a weird, urban way.

I've visited many a Farmer's Market - around the world - and I gotta say San Francisco's is absolutely the best.  I guess I'm starting to miss home.

So seeing this photo by Derek kind of made me homesick. 

Well cie la vie!  Off to Paris tomorrow.

So I spoke at SuperNova 2004 today on Digital Identity.   I gito to hang out with the original blogging.la (blogrolling.com meister) Jason DeFillippo - who was taking photos like a madman, as I sang opera and in general - cuased as much commotion as possible.

Here's a shot of Ray Ozzie - who in case you don't know - invented Lotus Notes and is the founder and CEO of Groove.

Tomorrow I get to hear Clay Shirky.

Andrew Leonard has written an excellent overview of social networking and "just what a friend is" in Salon.  It's a two part series.

Andrew kind of  took all my statements at face value, but it would have been nice to dive a little deeper into the various schemes being implemented right now and what'll be possible in the future - in so far as levels of relationship granularity.

Some folks just want a zero or one, take it or leave it approach to relationships - while others (like our PeopleAggregator project) support many levels of relationships.  No matter what, as long as we apply these social networks within particular contexts - like gaming, being Gay or within a virtual Silicon Valley - the granularity of relationships will come.

It's the only way to model real-life.

Joel De Gan has recently been Slashdotted - linking an article he wrote on a project he did for work.

The project entailed building a stand alonbe desktop app with php (on the client side) using PHP-GTK.  Pretty nerdy - but it works.

The idea is that stand alone apps, running a full copy of php - can reside on your client machine - monitoring webapps, web services or just about anything else.

I sure hope everyone goes to see this movie so we can encourage more totally outrageous special effects movies.

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Just received this letter from Alf Eaton.  I had asked him:

I’ve had some renewed interest in OpenReviews.  Blogware is getting ready to go gold (v 1.) and I have a few others (including SixApart) who are interested.  Have there been any changes to RVW?  Attempt to get it working in rdf and flow through RSS 1.0?

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Alf's reply:

I have been thinking about RVW on and off, though I haven't got round to writing down any changes yet. I'm still not sure of the best way to go about it, and in particular the need for it to be a part of RSS feeds or as a separate entity (which could then more easily be RDF).

I don't have any schemas - I'm not an expert in that kind of thing, and I haven't seen anyone propose any changes to the format which suggests that no-one's trying to aggregate reviews yet. However, I'll have another look at it this weekend, and see if I can put together another draft format that maybe some of the people implementing it would be able to comment on.

Alf.

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So here's my public response to Alf:

OK coolio.

We've got at leasta  starting pint for schemas (see below.)  Having the schemas be independent of the subscription format is key - so teh same data can flow through BOTH RSS 1.0/Atom (rdf) and RSS 2.0 (xml.)

God Bless competition.

So let us know of any changes to RVW to accomplish this goal - besides that - and it's deployment time.

Next up - ESF.  :-)  After usage sceanrios of course....

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Restaurant Reviews

- Name of Restaurant

- Region:City

- Ethnicity of cuisine

- Price range

- Year opened

- Restaurant Chain

- Reviewers Food rating

- Reviewers Décor Rating

- Reviewers Service Rating

- Restaurant photo

- Description

- Address: Map

- Hours

Movie-DVD Reviews

- Name of Movie:title

- Cast/Crew

- Studio-Distributor

- Category

- Year

- MPAA Rating

- Reviewers Rating

- Length

- Movie artwork

- Description

- IMDB unique ID#

- DVD ISBN #

- VHS ISBN #

Music Reviews

- Name of Artist-Band

- Name of Album

- Name of Best Song(s)

- Category: genre

- Producer

- Year

- Label

- Album artwork

- Reviewers Rating

- Description

- ISBN#

TV Show-Video Reviews

- Name of Show-Title

- Name of Actor(s)

- Names of co-stars

- Category

- Year(s)

- TV Network

- Production company

- Show artwork

- Reviewers Rating

- Description

Book-Magazine Reviews

- Name of Book-Periodical

- Name of Article

- Name of Author

- Year

- Category

- Publisher

- Book-Magazine artwork

- Reviewers Rating

- Description

- ASIN/ISBN#

Place-Resort Review

- Name of Locale

- Region:City

- Type of location

- Activities

- Historic Locations

- Tourist spots

- Locale artwork-photo

- Reviewers Rating

- Description

- Map

Event-Concert-Exhibit

- Name of Event-Concert-Exhibit

- Name of Artist-Band

- Date(s)

- Category

- Cost

- Event photo

- Reviewers Rating

- Description

- Map

Local Services

- Name of Service

- Type of Service

- Category

- Region: City

- Cost range

- Date

- Reviewers Rating

- Description

- Map

Game Reviews......

Rocks.

I can highly rercomend this movie -almost as much as the Weather Girl.

'Cause when I was young, I used to rock out to this album.  I was young - and I rocked.

I just posted a Congrats over at my blog - about the new Friends feature in Blogware.

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I just wish it was elevated up to the public.  Hmmm - let me take a look around.

 

When I was working on the Richard Li NOW.com project - I met this woman in London - out at Hogarth's roundabout.  I asked he what she did there and she said: "I want to be a Weather girl."  I said: "No - I didn't ask you what you wanted to be, I asked you what you did."  She said: "Oh - I'm a PA."

Here we go - time to merge some on-line personal publishing tools together.  FOAF, RSS, shared database space, SOAP calls, Atom - I don't care - let's just do it.

Some publish text, others are responsible for images, music or video.

Still others sure  look like web services to me.

I just wanna make it easier for humans to do their thang.

Though others didn't like it - I thought this movie rocked.

I know nobody is watching this - but that's OK.

My radio is broke. Taking time off from blogging.

Five recent posts (in reverse order) - just from yesterday!:
NotFriendster

Emode buys Ringo, Evite adds social networking

Social Software shootout

Joi Party

Mark and Reid buy SixDegrees patent

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U.S. Soldier Killed in Blast Near Tikrit
A U.S. Army soldier from the 720th Military Police Battalion , right, waits as an elderly Iraqi mam gets out of a car before searching the vehicle on Highway 1 outside of Tikrit, 193 km (120 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 3, 2003. The battalion, asssited by Iraqi police was searching for contraband weapons that could be used by guerrillas, a routine operation that has taken on added urgency since insurgents shot down a Chinook helicopter with a missile, killing 16 soldiers and wounding 20 others. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)