edTech, teacher, community development education, PhD student, permanent noob, cook, parent. Why the Pie? http://www.arbib.org/clarkpie/ppages/ppage6.html
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
Strikes me this is a route worth following for anyone interested in contemporary epistemological questions.
Faviki is a tool that brings together social bookmarking and Wikipedia. It lets you bookmark web pages using Wikipedia's terms. In Faviki, everybody uses the same names for tags from the world's largest collection of knowledge!
I do think this is a neat idea, addressing one of the big problems of folksonomies. In part it goes some way towards addressing my quibbles with restricted vocabularies. Faviki uses DBpedia as its underlying taxonomy. So, yes, there is restriction and structure, but this evolves with use and the restricting/structuring system is - to some extent - open.
My only problem with Faviki is that I do not want to move my bookmarks and social bookmarking groups over to it. I want Diigo (and Posterous - are you listening?) to do the same. Posterous really should allow you to tag posts in the "Share on Posterous" bookmarklet.
See here for how. It is interesting using email as a blogging environment. I have been using Ecto for several years to post to LiveJournal, WordPress and TypePad blogs or using web interfaces for Elgg (or feeds in). One good thing about Ecto is that it keeps local copies of my writing, which are then backed up. Given I squirrel my email away and seldom delete anything, I suppose using my mail client as a blog authoring environment achieves the same end. By tagging the post in the heading I would even be able to use the search facility to find items. Of course there is not so much control over formatting; or, I haven't yet found it. I wonder if I gave up my luddite attachment to courier monospace for writing mails and went for RTF or html mail, whether the formatting would be carried through to Posterous and the items re-posted from there?
