John Breslin's blog

xFolk Cloud v0.5 beta released | Performancing.com

Interesting post from Dave of RELAX SEO about the xFolk Cloud Generator which references SIOC:

xFolk Cloud v0.5 beta released | Performancing.com

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Latest news from Patrick Tilley, author of "The Amtrak Wars"

Got a very interesting comment from Patrick Tilley, author of "The Amtrak Wars" amongst other things, which I am re-quoting below for a wider audience:

Greetings,
Just came across your website and wanted to thank you for your sympathetic review of The Amtrak Wars - and all the readers who posted comments.

"Bebo Instructional Tutorial"

Watched the "Bebo Instructional Tutorial". It's actually a deleted scene from the recent Multime documentary about Bebo, but it could be an official promotional video, almost! Enjoy...

SIOC and other RDF from Apache Forrest in Google SOC

Saw this snippet in a current project description from Apache for the Google Summer of Code:

Creating plugins for embedding/producing RDF/XML and microformats in Forrest content objects

Student: Oshani Wasana Seneviratne
Mentor: Gavin McDonald

Galway OpenCoffee Club this Friday

Upcoming.org has details of this Friday's first OpenCoffee Club event for Galway at 11 AM (thanks for setting up the page aidanf).

This follows on from an e-mail from Jan "TouristR" Blanchard to some of us here in DERI in response to a blog post from Edward O'Connor, a web programmer living in San Diego, CA, who is visiting Galway this week.

Bought a domain...

...called breslin.org. It nearly cost the price of an old VW Jetta ;-)

Sold my car...

20070612a.jpg ...last night to a nice guy from Wroclaw. The car was a 1992 Volkswagen Jetta Pacific Diesel, and I had just put it for sale on Car Zone on Friday.

BarCamp Belfast on 30th June

Anyone else from the Irish boggersphere going to BarCamp Belfast at the end of the month?

I will be giving a talk on "Semantic Web 2.0" - or how the Semantic Web can aid Web 2.0 sites...

Looking forward to the event, and if you're thinking of attending, sign up at the link below!

http://barcamp.org/BarCampBelfast

Despair not amateur webmasters, it happens to the pros too...

Just did a search for "honda ad" on YouTube (looking for that ad where the parts of the car all tumble in sequence to turn on another car) and got a nice big Apache error...

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, web@youtube.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

BlogTalk Reloaded: the book

20070608a.png I got my copy of the book "BlogTalk Reloaded: Social Software - Research & Cases" in the post yesterday, and am very happy with it (thanks Jan!).