Connotate: “World-class experts in data mining, artificial intelligence and mobile computing from Rutgers University, under an $8 million DARPA contract, developed Connotate's patent-pending core technology, XML-by-example™.” US taxpayers paid for their patent? Outrageous. [Scripting News]

Bleeding edge XML at XTech 2001. Here's your chance to share ideas and code with the best XML developers at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention this summer. [xmlhack]

Diane Hillmann: Using Dublin Core “This document is intended as an entry point for users of Dublin Core. For non-specialists, it will assist them in creating simple descriptive records for information resources (for example, electronic documents). Specialists may find the document a useful point of reference to the documentation of Dublin Core, as it changes… Continue reading Using Dublin Core

IWon – U.S. Upholds Ban on Selling Personal Data . A federal court upheld a ruling that credit bureaus and other data firms no longer will be allowed to sell names, addresses, Social Security numbers and phone numbers from credit records without consumer consent, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Tuesday.… Continue reading U.S. Upholds Ban on Selling Personal Data

Andromeda 1.4 (Default). ASP and PHP scripts which dynamically convert folders of MP3s into a web site. [freshmeat.net]

dev/con shop 0.9.5 (Default). PHP4-based Web shop. [freshmeat.net]

Webmonkey: Wanna Be a Project Manager? Red Industries consists of just four people, yet we follow this process carefully because we value our down time. Using this process, we're able to handle large jobs yet still take weekends off. It works for us — and hopefully it will help some of you avoid another late… Continue reading Wanna Be a Project Manager?

Linus Torvalds has an excellent rebuttal to Craig Mundie's speech. [Scripting News]

Semantic Web to be Berners-Lee's second success?. With the Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee is attempting to reproduce the technique that worked so well with the Web — a simple concept magnified by billion of distributed sites. However, more effort will be needed to convince the skeptics. [xmlhack]

Dylan Tweney: Open secrets. These technical and market forces combine on the Internet to create an environment where information of the most private nature can quickly be disseminated worldwide, in seconds. In other words, “Information wants to be public.” [Tomalak's Realm]