Digitalia Alasdair’s workblog and linkdump

Links For Tuesday 22nd April 2008

• Improving the internet | The web: some antics | Economist.com
  I was unfair yesterday - turns out the Economist has been talking about the semantic web for longer that I thought. There is another article from 2006 as well, but I can’t link to it because it’s behind a paywall. But still, hooray for the Economist.
  (tags: semantic_web future economist)
• Ideas For Dozens: Automating Firefox for Web Application Integration
  Potentially security-hole-tastic, but also amazing for site admin systems and the like, it’s now possible to install an extension that allows a site to telnet into your copy of Firefox, and do various things to add a whole new layer to what a site can do.
  (tags: firefox javascript ruby jssh shell howto extension)
• BBC iPlayer - Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press
  Just a note to myself - missed this when it was on. I note the BBC still haven’t fixed the iplayer on OSX - because it’s flash based, it does not stop my screen from going dark through lack of mouse movement, like a proper media player does. Grr.
  (tags: bbc typography fry)