RDFa seems to be picking up more momentum in the last few weeks. The formerly skeptical Taylor Cowan is liking it more, and I learned from the RDFa blog that Digg has lots of RDFa—five triples of information for some stories, so there are some simple but cool applications waiting to be written around those.

I recently wanted to print a 184-page spec to read, but I didn’t want to carry around a pile of paper that big. I have no access to a two-sided printer, but I figured out how to create two-sided pages with a one-side printer:

Radiohead has made the separate tracks for their new single “Nude” available and invited people to submit remixes. My brother Peter, who scores TV commercials for a living, has submitted a remix that’s hilarious if you know two things in advance:

Looking at Michael Pick’s video DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix and on the dataportability.com home page, I saw that RDF was included in a brief list of standards involved, and something occurred to me about the value of RDF in attempts to share data across applications such as social networking sites—in particular, why it’s better than XML for this.

I’ve given several talks on preparing strategies for the ebook market, and one key point is the value of early prototyping. epub format ebooks are good for this because they’re easy to make and fit well into the increasing use of agile software development practices in the publishing world. (Other formats aren’t very difficult to create either, and as we’ll see, may be worth including in your prototyping efforts.) You can put something together, show it to your management…

The first time I loaded an RDF/XML document into Emacs with nxml mode, it automatically loaded the appropriate RELAX NG compact schema for me. I was especially impressed because RDF/XML has such a potentially tricky structure. (Perhaps too tricky, but that’s another topic.) In its default configuration, nxml automatically loads the appropriate schemas for RDF/XML, XHTML 1, RELAX NG, DocBook, and XSLT. This last one has been my only real XSLT development tool other than actual XSLT…