OS X Server 10.4.* (Tiger), Apache2, PHP5, and PostGres for the Mac

I needed to recompile my setup, and Tiger doesn’t support Apache2 or PHP5 out of the box.  Click to read more »

Graphing tool

The "Big Assert" subject map pattern

Advertising by topic in (forthcoming) Drupal topic map module

Before:

And after:  Click to read more »

P2P search

Apparently, I’m not the only one with this idea.  Click to read more »

"monetizing conversation"

Oddly, or not, a google search on this phrase turns up:  Click to read more »

The answer to this question is "With a topic map"

Semergence writes:

I’ve love to be able to do something like this:

{
  "name": "Cool Beans",
  "account": "http://example.org/accounts/23242342"
}

However, any JSON client will have a tough time determining what the meaning of the account value is. Sure, it’s a string. But how should it be treated? And how do I express that to my JSON clients? I’m not about to give them a regular expression and say “if it matches, it’s a URI, and follow it!”

And then asks:

Thoughts? How to express hypermedia in JSON?  Click to read more »

Why is this not a topic map?

Closer to an elevator speech

One liner:

Topic maps help people help each other to find stuff. Any stuff.

Therefore, it’s a new product category (some would say a new weltanschauung, but that would never sell). Differentiators:  Click to read more »