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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:28:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com

Does your cat look like Adolf Hitler? Do you wake up in a cold sweat every night wondering if he's going to up and invade Poland? Does he keep putting his right paw in the air while making a noise that sounds suspiciously like "Sieg Miaow"? If so, this is the website for you.

Authority, popularity and scholarship on the Web

Fri, 23 May 2008 02:29:37 GMT

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Clip Source: chronicle.com

That is authority conferred mostly by applause and popularity. It has its limits, but it also both confers and confirms authority because people tend to point to authoritative sources to bolster their own work. At present, it continues to be a great way of finding "answers" — facts and specific information — from authoritative sources, but it has yet to do a very good job at providing a nuanced perspective on a source or, say, scholarly communication.

Tags: web 3.0, scholarship, wikipedia

Authority, abundance and scholarship on the Web

Fri, 23 May 2008 02:28:40 GMT

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Clip Source: chronicle.com

Abundance leads to immediate context and fact checking, which changes the "authority market" substantially

Web 2.0 is all about responding to abundance

But right now we're still living with the habits of information scarcity because that's what we have had for hundreds of years. Scholarly communication before the Internet required the intermediation of publishers. The costliness of publishing became an invisible constraint that drove nearly all of our decisions. It became the scholar's job to be a selector and interpreter of difficult-to-find primary and secondary sources; it was the scholarly publisher's job to identify the best scholars with the best perspective and the best access to scarce resources.

Tags: web 3.0, scholarship

Wikipedia and authority

Fri, 23 May 2008 02:12:33 GMT

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Clip Source: chronicle.com

Wikipedia is another group-participation engine, but focused on group construction of authority and validity. Anyone can modify any article, and all changes are tracked; the rules are few — stay factual and unbiased, cite your sources — and recently some more "authoritative" editors have been given authority to override whining ax grinders. But over all, it is still an astonishing experiment in group participation. Interestingly, in Wikipedia, most users seem to believe that the more edited an entry is (that is, the more touched and changed by many different people), the more authority it has. That kind of democratization of authority is nearly unique to wikis that are group edited, since not observation, but active participation in improvement, is the authority metric.

What will Web 3.0 look like? (PC mag)

Fri, 23 May 2008 01:58:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

An Idiot's Guide to Web 3.0
What will Web 3.0 look like? Who knows? But here are a few possibilities.

The Semantic Web

The 3D Web

The Media-Centric Web
A Web where you can find media using other media—not just keywords.

The Pervasive Web

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

What the traditional Web does for the text documents in our lives, the Semantic Web does for all our data and information.

So the technology of the Semantic Web is, in a sense, the technology of precise vocabularies.

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

You won't search for media with keywords in the future-—you'll search for media with media. To find an image, you'll supply another image. To find a song, you'll supply another song.

you aren't really looking for photos of Apple's CEO. You're looking for filenames and captions that carry those keywords—"Steve" and "Jobs"—hoping the right photos are somewhere nearby.

Tags: web 3.0

Social graph and beyond

Tue, 20 May 2008 05:10:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.readwriteweb.com

In a nutshell, this is how Berners-Lee envisions the 3 levels (a.k.a. layers of abstraction):

1. The Internet: links computers
2. Web: links documents
3. Graph: links relationships between people and/or documents -- "the things documents are about" as Berners-Lee put it.

The Graph is all about connections and re-use of data.

Tags: web 3.0, social graph

Three theories of Web 3.0

Tue, 20 May 2008 02:57:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good summary of main approaches to what Web 3.0 night be.

Clip Source: www.personneltoday.com

Semantic web: an internet in which machines and/or incredibly smart software agents would be better able to read and search sites than us mere mortals. Another interpretation of the semantic web would see the emergence of semantic search engines, which shift from the keyword searches we use today to a natural-language processing approach. It will be capable of answering questions such as: how many times have Juventus won the Italian football league?

3D web: the web becomes a virtual environment we can walk through, with perhaps one of the best working examples of this being the online universe Second Life.

Pervasive web: the internet will be everywhere around us, not just on hand-held devices but on wearable ones too, and could even extend to the kitchen windows, which, courtesy of networks routed everywhere, could be told to open when the temperature reaches a certain level.

Tags: web 3.0

A new take on 'Web 3.0'?

Tue, 20 May 2008 02:13:42 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.zdnet.com

Writing in today’s Financial Times, Digital Business supplement editor Peter Whitehead offers a different interpretation on Web 3.0 to that which readers of this blog might be used…

“Web 2.0 is a world in which anyone can have a go at generating content; Web 3.0 is where professionals take the lead in shaping that content”
(my emphasis)

“So the leap from Web 1.0, over the messy world of Web 2.0, into the “quality-assured” world of Web 3.0 is beginning now at www.ft.com/digitalbusiness”

Not a mention of the Semantic Web, which appears increasingly closely linked to the fuzzy ‘3.0′ moniker, and a hint of professional elitism in the notion that ‘professionals’ have the answers in steering us past the ‘mess’ that amateurs made with 2.0.

Tags: web 3.0

Semantic Web (PC Mag)

Mon, 19 May 2008 03:21:57 GMT

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Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

"The semantic Web provides a framework for turning the Web into a database, essentially," says Spivack. "Instead of just a bunch of documents, it becomes accessible in the way a relational database is. That can dramatically improve search and make unstructured Web data more accessible."

Tags: web 3.0

Web 3.0: The End of Google?

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:27:02 GMT

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Clip Source: evolvingtrends.wordpress.com

Thus, and as stated, in the Semantic Web individual machine-based agents (or a collaborating group of agents) will be able to understand and use information by translating concepts and deducing new information rather than just matching keywords.

Once machines can understand and use information, using a standard ontology language, the world will never be the same. It will be possible to have an info agent (or many info agents) among your virtual AI-enhanced workforce each having access to different domain specific comprehension space and all communicating with each other to build a collective consciousness.

Tags: web 3.0