"Why am i not on google?" - Asked my Friend and prayer partner Michael Robb. He is missionary in Kaiserslautern and I was drinking beer with him yesterday - actually Gromgull also had one of his beers.

So, the answer is probably: because the website of vision of god in europe is not search engine optimized. So blogging about this site probably helps a little, we will see.

Funny, Michael's website is made very well, nice colors and many options. For example they have a photo gallery. Browsing a little I find a photo of my bible group, which is hosted in my living room. And - oho - photo of fraunhofers. Well, his wife works there. Something like a blog is also there, but no RSS feeds nor comments, so not a real blog.

He started a page about Katharina, but not much there.

So the answer about "why am I not in findeable" is probably - because nobody blogged about you before. hope this helps, and god bless your stuff Michael.

Aduna, the company that is known for guided exploration of compnay information, and of course for programming the sesame server at openrdf.org, and for autofocus, and and and .... they have swichted their business model to open source.

read their statement on open-source.

They have also changed their name to "Aduna-Software", giving focus on what they do (software).

This continues what I have experienced working with them together on Aperture, the framework I have been using now in the latest gnowsis system to crawl data from various file-formats and data sources. We developed this together, they use it for the new version of Autofocus.

Aperture raised interest, Henry Story from SUN blogged about how important it is to have projects like Aperture to make the semantic web run.

A new website was created to separate open-source services from company issues, this seems to be their open-source portal: aduna-software.org

and look, they use their own tech to crawl their own website and have a search interface.

So, best wishes for Aduna-Software from my side and looking forward for the release of Sesame2.

I put the photos of burningman online, here they are in a nice set:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leobard/sets/72157594286473194/

some teasers:

iddqd
idkfa
idspispopd
idclev

I can remeber these words, since roughly 12 years. What they are, find it out yourself. But I can't remember Aspect oriented Programming or the names of my colleagues.

dammn it, we need a whole new way of e-learning.

Something we would have needed for the iTrip Disco!

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Zack Rosen blogs about why RDF research sucks and has written a mail to the Simile mailinglist for comments. No comments from me, but a general agreement on his suggestions for a way out:

So what can we do about it?

1. Researchers need to stop thinking of themselves as researchers and start thinking of themselves as implementors.
2. Research institutes need to join forces with emerging businesses looking to adopt semantic technology. This breaks the current model of business / research institute collaboration since startups do not have money to contribute to fund research, but tough noogies.
3. Researchers need to build their tools in real-world development environments, i.e. as modules for LAMP web-publishing tools such as Drupal and Wordpress. They need to find more organizational partners to deploy their solutions. They need to do something other than build widgets.