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Coupla SWEOish docs: Ina goes to 4.0 in the The Semantic Web in simple english (and horrid layout ;-), Ivan has a full-length tutorial in slides.

Today I noticed Sun eyes a JavaScript alternative to AJAX talking about Project Flair, a Javascript Web kernel. By coincidence only yesterday I was looking at some material from Dan Ingalls, the project's principal. He's done a JVM Squeak kernel - sounded brilliant ( hook it up to Jena! thinks I) but it's slow and the source doesn't seem to be available (key/mouse mapping is a bit weird on the Mac too). That led me to GNU Smalltalk ( hook it up to Redland!) which frankly I found a bit disappointing, it doesn't seem to have the class browser etc (apart from hooks into emacs, I think), the immersive bits that to me make Smalltalk compelling. More satisfying was the time I spent playing with SmallWorld, a remarkably small Smalltalk implementation written in Java, but with the essential features (like the GUI bits) in place. Viewing the source made my head hurt a bit, but it was still quite painful to put down, lot of potential fun if I had a few months free. Still haven't finished what I was doing in Squeak a couple of years ago...

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods is great

Mike Bergman covers Cyc

Paul Downey is in The Integration Playground

Norm Walsh is Implementing XProc

Jeni Tennison (who unbeknownst to her has solved no end of my XSLT problems over the years) and David Carlisle are now blogging. David's blown my socks off a bit with a HTML tag soup tidier (you know, the sort of thing you need to run before you can do any XSLT) implemented in XSLT - htmlparse.