1:38 PM: The weblogger community will route around hate speech and bigotry online.
I wonder if that’s true. We’ve seen the Google effect when webloggers start linking to something. Someone spouts some bile - can the weblog community resist linking it? That’s my idea of routing around it. If we link it, it is soon rising in Google’s ranks, the internet equivalent of a PR victory. So yes, maybe we can route around it, but I’m not certain.
1:52 PM: Doc asks the audience how many have political opinions that are left of center. Most of the audience raises their hands. He then asks how many people are afraid to talk about it on their weblogs.
Via Dan Brickley’s RDFWeb (dev page), I found a link to this most-amazing tool for creating RDF files. RDFAuthor is a Mac OS X application that loads RDF vocabularies and lets you graphically create instances of those schema. I used it to create my new FOAF-enabled about page.