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i’m sorry man but if your vocabulary depends on the concept of property, and not just property but property in its most problematic and troubled form, especially when it comes to the Web, you know, that thing you invented

that’s no good my man

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me: well this vocabulary is mostly not useful in view of later work, but it has some unique terms, and there’s probably no harm in it

me, realizing that timbl defined a “Work” as “a piece of intellectual property”:

is an animated gif an image?

me: so in the year 2000 there was this guy named Tim Berners-Lee

@Satsuma: i think you can start your story a LITTLE later than that

in the pokémon world the internet was subsidized by the pokémon battling scene instead of by the military

i prefer information exploitation to information innovation personally; we’ve innovated enough with information

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if you were wondering what DARPA was up to these days

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apparently it’s called the “Information Innovation Office” now and is leaning hard into A·I darpa.mil/about-us/offices/i2o

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ah yes Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Information Exploitation Office all my friends love Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Information Exploitation Office

might just open an issue linking the microformats wiki since that’s what they did for rel="me"

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you could probably get an easy RFC writing credit specifying this if that’s something you want on your resume

“The "meta" link header is used to point to a resource which provides metadata about a thing. There are no constraints on the format of this metadata. Implementations MAY use content negotiation to allow clients to request metadata in a particular format.

Security Concerns: None, beyond those present in web linking in general.”

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somebody involved with the IANA add "meta" to the list of registered link relation types; it’s a widely-deployed pattern

i’m not trying to turn a profit or get tenure i’m just a gay girl trying to describe her world, but it turns out the world has a lot of stuff which does not turn a profit or get you tenure

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do i want the things i am doing to be picked up by the broader semantic web community? no, not really

is it weird that nobody else seems to be doing this? yes

Cornell University Library is looking for an Applications Programmer III

$90K–$100K/yr; work from anywhere in the United States

cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/

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