Well, this is a pretty unwieldly subject to pack into a 1 hour presentation (and I didn't go very far into the details of the mechanics of the semantic web, at all)....[googleapps domain="docs" dir="present/embed" query="id=dkcxvp2_12299fxpzchq&interval=15&autoStart=true" width="410" height="342" /]

Link roundup...

So, google pages (the online editor/hosted website creator available for free to google/gmail customers) is going away. It will be replaced by google sites. I, as well as a ton of other google users, received the following message (prompting a question from friend, about whether her site would migrate properly):

However, we've identified you as using Google Page Creator to host files that Sites doesn't support. We are writing to inform you that, as part of this migration, if you take no action to address this, your hosted files will likely break.

Very interesting post on coding using HTML4 vs. HTML5 or XHTML.http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2009/06/coding_like_its_1999/

A few links to share today:

• Nine Browsers of today and tomorrow compared
• CSS your icons
• Standard icons for use

http://shesgeeky.org/sg/How cool is this? I'd love to go, but I don't have enough travel money and I am swamped with work, freelance, & committee stuff at the mo -- intense xhtml/css training at the end of the month, too. of course, if someone paid my way, I'd find the time, ya know. ;-)

Has anyone used Issuu to epublish? If so, what do you think? I've been considering switching platforms for the arts magazine. I like PacerCMS, but I don't have much time for development these days. I chose PacerCMS because it created a nice issue and did everything I wanted out of the box (and it pretty much does, once I created my CSS templates). So, I don't HAVE to switch to anything... but whoa, does Issuu look good. However, the free version is ad based. ;-(Is there anything opensource like Issuu?

Although I was late, I managed to attend the Carolina Conversations webinar in Second Life. Yep, I actually got my avatar to the presentation and I got her to sit down. I've been wanting to attend an academic event in SL for a while, but they always seemed to either cost money (real money!) OR were at 3AM my time. Sorry, I may be an insomniac at times, but even I have to sleep occasionally!

I've been looking at a plugin to expand my image gallery (hosted at my domain via opensource coppermine, not the flickr version) by using feeds -- basically, for each category I would have a feed.