Twitter turned on its API for geotagging tweets yesterday, as announce in in a post on their blog, Think Globally, Tweet Locally. Currently, geographic information will only be associated with your tweets if you use an application that adds it and will.
Topics: Semantic Web, Social media, Twitter

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Topics: Humor

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Wikipedia has an interesting RFC on approaches to achieve and maintain better coherence in its infobox templates. This is significant because Wikipedia is becoming the new CYC — a broad, practical KB filled with general purpose background...
Topics: cyc, dbpedia, KR, Semantic Web, Social media, Wikipedia

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This ought to be fun.According to an article in the WSJ, Europe Approves New Cookie Law, “the Council of the European Union has approved new legislation that would require Web users to consent to Internet cookies..” The law could have broad...
Topics: Privacy, Social media, Web

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Around here we prefer range voting to approval voting or IRV.
Topics: Humor, irv, range voting, Social media, voting

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