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Wednesday, February 26, 2003  New School Tools   What's JahShaka? I'm glad you asked. The logo I now have prominently displayed in my blog - is for a radical new kind of open source high-end desktop video editing and effects program - called JahShaka. Have you ever tried to create a desktop video?  Ever wonder why your compressed material degenerates over time - adding compression on top of compression?  Well JahShaka can solve that problem and a 1,000 others.  Ever wonder why the hardware chips that are becoming so predominant in the world of gaming, and built into every PC - don't have software that takes advantage of them - via OpenGL (and soon OpenML?)  Well - yup you guess it - JahShaka is all over that.  But it's "only" source code for now.  We'll soon have  a"build" available for purchase - real cheap.  Now let's see, how much was After-Effects? 1:07:50 PM     - Let me hear from you []  the matrix   The Matrix Phone The Matrix Phone. Here comes the hype Samsung Electronics and Warner Bros. Consumer Products will soon divulge the specific details regarding their unprecedented... [Michael Gartenberg] OK let me catch my breath!  Apparently Samsung and Warner Pictures have worked out a cross-promotional deal - like no other.  Go to The Matrix Phone and sign up for 'future news. Then go to and tell all your friends "The Matrix is coming."  The meme is spreading. I knew this would happen.  The tie in and relationship between The Matrix and the Mesh is not coincidental.  Now all we need is Keanu Reeves as a spokesperson for open standards! HHhhhhhmmmmmmm. 12:51:53 PM     - Let me hear from you []  Open Standards | Semantic Web   Meta-data by humans (and other semantic web stuff) The challenge of getting people to author metadata. Here's a presentation on "The Economy of Distributed Metadata Authoring" by  Stefano Mazzocchi . A few passages ring especially true to me. First Law of Metadata Quality: Artificial intelligence is just that: artificial! So: for a system that feels smart to humans, you need human-crafted metadata Suggestions: Do all efforts to make instant return on the investment of metadata authoring Don't ask too much Be smart but not smarter Some of the same wisdom went into the design of the Internet Topic Exchange. [Seb's Open Research] Right on to Seb - as he seems to grok intuitively the big picture issues.  My only comment would be that as much as we need humans to create the meta-data, there still is MUCH MORE that we need a Topic Registry to do. As I've requested before - Matt Mower's LiveTopics (I'm a Radio user - so I'm addicted/or shall I say dependent upon LiveTopics to express my personal ontologies) - needs to do some of the slave labor for me.  Why should I have to go and find TopicExchange.com and manually paste in my post into my channel of choice? That's bizarrely medieval in it's crudeness.  That's what computers were invented for - to automte those slave tasks.  Let alone where we'd go once a true topic registry was in place. BTW Seb also has a great pointer to some more 'Semantic web' stuff:    The semantic web explained (without the agonizing pain). A very neat, painless introduction to the Semantic Web (pdf), from Toronto-based Semaview. [Co-construction des savoirs à IDITAE via Michel Dumais via Gilles Beauchamp] From the same source, check out these one-minute overview charts: The Semantic Web, RDF vs. XML. And while we're at it: there's a new Journal on Web Semantics. 10:10:11 AM     - Let me hear from you []