If you’re not familiar with Twine - it is web 2.5 (towards web 3.0) tool that keeps track of your interests by collecting online content, brings it all together by the topic of your interest, so you can have it all in one place and share it with anyone you want. Even more, beside personalized or collaborative  way of collecting content, sharing interests in communities, learning about new things, getting personalized recommendations.

Before I invite you to join and share with you an interesting Twine I found out recently, I’d like you to know that Twine is powered by semantic Web [one of my fav. anticipated topics since 2002]. This means the system automatically learns about your interests, groups, then makes connections and recommendations tailored to you by using RDF standards (Resource Description Framework language), URI (universal resource identifier) and OWL (Web Ontology Language). For more information how these three main components work in Twine check this page.

You can join Twine anytime and find interesting content - depending from your interests. I use Twine since May 2008, when it was ‘invite-only’ - this is me on Twine , and recently I found out great new resources on Full text. And it is free! Full text is the name of this Twine and it’s enriched with free databases and scholarly search tools, open access journals, which is opposite of locked academic online full text databases, archives or libraries that you have to pay for (or your University/ institution at least). As a preacher of the open access - if you are researcher, student, involved in academia or maybe professional interested in specific area,  this is place with great resources. Please give me a feedback on Twine or meet me there.

Twine Official on Vimeo.

I have been tagged by Bora with a bit complexed meme, more as blogging and scientific experiment in cyberspace evolution and I’d like to see how it has progressed so far, from ‘my grand-grand parent’ to parent. Here are the rules, and my answers:

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:

* You can leave them exactly as is.

* You can delete any one question.

* You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change “The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is…” to “The best time travel novel in Westerns is…”, or “The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is…”, or “The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is…”.

* You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”.

* You must have at least one question in your set, or you’ve gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you’re not viable.

Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.

Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.

My great-grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.

My grandparent is Flying Trilobite.

My parent is A Blog Around the Clock.

The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is:

Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

The best neo-noir SF film in scientific and cyberpunk dystopias is:

Bladerunner by Ridley Scott.

The best sexy song in rock is:

Rose rouge by St Germain

[edit] as I mixed genres, above is more jazzy-groovy.

The best sexy song in rock is:

Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode.

The best cult novel in ex-Yugoslav fiction is:

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kis.

I am tagging the following people,this time my Twitter friends, to do the same:

Curt Hopkins

Anatole Fuksas

Uldis Bojars

Paul Jones

Very interesting view of time-table development, by Andrew Walkingshaw, of information, communication and science publishing between 2003 and 2019, *from the perspective of an eighteen year old.

Semantic web, finally! From the abstract of Peter Murray-Rust, Reader in Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge and Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College, via Yan Feng, interesting video on semantic web in chemistry, GoogleInChi, and other issues in informatics environment. Read and watch!

The millions of scientific papers published each year are an amazing source for scientific discovery but in most of them the experimental data is destroyed by the publication process. Publishers insist on converting semantic data into PDF which effectively destroys everything. We have been developing social and technical strategies to preserve and liberate this data and where this has happened have been able to create completely new mashups and other semantic resources.

As we wondered about Chinese or Arabic science blogs few days ago, I popped up (I hope not too late), to one great Chinese science blog: author Yan Feng, an applied physicist, who works on lasers, and Photonics.  He seted up search engine called GoogLaser that is working with Google custom search, and also made a  setup Science Blogs Search engine. Dedicated scientist, interesting posts, rich blog in sci/edu blogosphere.

As I was awaken for the one meeting ( useful and brainstroming), then the other meeting, running through one part of the city to the other (downtown, my base: i like:) , I found out on the Board meeting of (meta)MediaWiki, many interesting facts and things: ‘am i the one who started the story on semantic web‘?, as well that some talks on intiative - Semantic media wiki and Meta Media.wiki projects, with plans for the next year (though’support’ in this is needed!). Good thing (stats) : Serbian WikiMedia (40/24 founders) has wider board than French (19 members) and Swiss Wikimedia (26 board members) and immediately got message from one of the Swiss admins’ (slade). Anyway, here’s the link to special photo i made - Oscar Van Dillen last weekend (with German sticker on his laptop for wikipedia) - <promise to upload wikicommons.org>. And how the day continued - read above the post.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in England today announced they would start a new ’study’ of Web: the science of the Web. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, for BBC Science, said that he wants to set up a web science research project to study the SOCIAL implications of web’s development. And finally, social aspect on Web and Initiative will be launched at universities including several disciplines: social sciences, psychology and life sciences, with technology development. Semantic Web standards will be included as well (:

Today a friend introduced me ‘new’ (moi-4 months techno-retarded person:) tag meta search engine Fetch based in San Fransico. TagFetch can search multiple tag sites from one location: includes Flickr, YouTube,  del.icio.us, Technorati, Feedster, Ice Rocket, Topix, Digg and Google Blogs.  Type some word, name, term, something - i got  search information “Server timed out try again.” (maybe I was too demanding)

Not that bad, actually GREAT. Me and Day. Hailing the taxi (fighting with a yuppie for it), through the jungle of streets to get on time. All well done, words ran like a river(: And USEful information before ’speech/paper book presentation/critics/defence/Q&A’ in the morning (that’s why blogs exsist, thanks PJ). In more than hour and a half and after my perfect and ‘clarifying’ speech - ‘we’ could learn from some Serbian academic experts: following: electronic publications (published by major publishers) and open access archives/Dl’s/repositories, are not “scientifically” verified, also that i was ‘using’ too much of ‘Google’ term (scholar, SE, all services) in the paper, that people who (in all professional areas) use Google Scholar services are ’suspicious’ and information is ”not valid”, ”verified”, etc. As well as quoting ‘we do not know how ‘these and this’ people are world wide IT experts’. And my sentences/phrases have ‘flaws’ ( I found ‘theirs” later on, so formal and burocratic). Though I was commended on my semantics and pioneer research work (:). Seems like formalism is taking over the ‘role’ over the content (in this case), and all constructive ideas, issues, posted questions to overcome the current situation fell into the water. Form is what matters (for some of us). I didn’t even had a chance to mention or say L, and Linux as a primer…and being interrupted. For many issues.  Countires in transition functionate like this. Unfortunately. My time is coming and I really do not bother for formalities, non-academic behaviour, as well as for tomorrows voting for new serbian constitution. I’m looking for a decent publisher now(:

After all, I did PERFECT and constructive thing today, and those souls in the audience who understood what I was talking about - came after with a smile, for a handshake and few positive and creative comments(: And i DID wear my jeans pants and had my new ‘old’ stunning haircut:) B&B.

interesting issue to read and think about: web 3.0 together with the semantic web (3.0) made an outcome in Wikipedia 3.0???
what is the future of web and google?