ASN would strengthen the collaborative nature of the Internet... to act as a public commons that engages citizens in civil society... an infrastructure for trusted relationships across the [web]...enabling innovation in democratic governance, alternative
Business narrative is a set of techniques based on the collection and interpretation of stories collected from a workplace. This technique is most effective when applied to seemingly intractable problems such as culture change, trust, innovation, leadersh
Emergent structure vs. intelligent design: This all reflects a fundamental if still incoherent debate. There's one school of thought that says that if you just collect enough data and throw enough algorithms at it, the inherent structure - and the underst
Freebase, having suctioned up some freely available web databases (e.g., Wikipedia, Musicbrainz), structures the data by assigning "types" to entities, which automatically associates additional data that Freebase has defined as related to these "types." T
Currently, web content is based largely on documents written in HTML, a hypertext markup language coding a body of text that's interspersed with other media (like images, or forms). HTML has limited ability to classify sections of text on a web page so th
Microformats: Recognizing the complexity of RDF and OWL, the goal of microformats is to embed basic semantics (meaningful relationships) right into HTML pages. It is not as expressive right now as RDF and OWL, but it's compact & and uses at-hand XHTML. A