Despite the fact that “Semantic Web” has been trending down (at least in Google searches), it seems like more web sites devoted to it are popping up these days. I’ve been messing around with Twine for a fews weeks now and it seems pretty useful, although it definitely can’t accomplish what they claim. [^1] A new one that I stumbled into, via KurzweilAI.net is Powerset. My 30 second review is that I tried searches on two pretty obscure subjects that I’ve been reading about lately, the St. Petersburg factor[^2] and kriegsspiel. Basically, I got the same search results at wikipedia, powerset and google—no immediately discernible differences.

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Most bloggers I read regularly pretty much write their entries and then move on. I myself, like to occasionally cull through what I’ve written about previously and from time to time update my entries. I think this in part stems from the fact that I’m often frustrated when I read a news story and a few months later try to find out how it resolved only to find nothing. It would be nice if news organizations regularly made RSS feeds for individual stories so that you could find the occasional update. Oh well. I suppose as long as thoroughness is dead, the least I can do is try to keep my own stuff up to date. And when I was thinking about how I wanted to go about this I realized that trackbacking isn’t just a nice tool for site-to-site interaction but also intrasite temporal interaction. Now when I update some entry that I wrote a while back, I trackback that entry with the new entry. That way anyone looking at the old entry (having come in from a search engine or what not) will know that new thoughts/facts are available.

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Yesterday’s post mentioned that I found this article (OpenP2P.com: Is Jabber’s Chatbot the Command Line of the Future?) on O’reilly right after discussing how I thought chatbots could become highly useful interfaces.

Today I just want to expand on that concept a bit. DJ Adams already does a great job of pointing out some of the things that bots do on IRC. Not being much of an IRC user, I had no idea that some of these bots could do the things DJ discusses. Among them he mentions note-taking, moderation and information provision. Read more…