March 2009
4 posts
Making the case for Raw Data
Tim Berners-Lee’s recent TED talk on Linked Data has inspired quite a few people to ask what exactly linked data is, how it differs from data on the semantic web, and how realistic it is to assume universal and unique addressability of data items. A world with linked data would be a world with richer, more explorable data, and that notion on its own makes Tim’s talk worth viewing. ...
Rethinking the Newsroom
I’ve had a lot of discussions with people about what news will look like in a digital age. Clay Shirky has just written this piece about that topic. He’s managed to say a few major things:
Big newsrooms were a means to an end. Unfortunately for them, what we actually want is information via journalism, and until recently, not everyone could afford the printing press that was a...
Driving in India
The key thing to remember about driving in India is that it is different, not worse than driving in the US. It also works, which the US’s system would not at the scale of transport that India’s population requires. Here are some basic rules of life when driving in India.
Honking
If you do not honk in India, there are two possible reasons:
you are walking, or
you have a broken...
Mumbai and home
We arrived at the Victoria Terminus (VT is the British name for it, but it’s been renamed to CST since). This train station is supposed to be the architectural Taj Mahal of the British empire, but I can hardly compare the two. It was 6 am when we got off the train, and it was still dark out, so we waited to leave the station and dropped our big backpacks off at a holding area for the...