Day: January 13, 2004

to make your own FOAF without having to read the standard.
Web link of note: FOAF-a-matic
(At http://www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic)

Used to be at
http://www.sensoryresearch.com/~starkeff/mit.html.

A “mic in track” is a recording made on a PC using MusicMatch Jukebox, a music utility packaged with many new PC’s that allows the user to record from the microphone input of the PC’s sound card and save the recording in mp3 format. The default filename is “mic in track” followed by a number.

If that user also happens to be running a file-sharing program (WinMX, Audiognome, Kazaa, etc.), and shares the directory in which the mic in track is stored, then these personal recordings can be easily downloaded from the user’s computer. The vast majority of them are either silent or uninteresting, but many are like Christmas presents giftwrapped in nondescript serial numbers. They represent unique examples of audio v�rit�.

Web link of note: mic in track
(At http://www.livejournal.com/community/mic_in_track/)

FOAF browsing site. Check out their links to the FOAF standard.
Web link of note: plink.org- FOAF browser
(At http://beta.plink.org/)

It’s a file standard where you make a public FOAF file (in a XML format) which can then be read and searched, to link you together with all your friends… kind of like Tribes.net, except without a central server.

Here’s a quick post on SixApart’s integration of FOAF.
Web link of note: FOAF: Friend of a Friend
(At http://www.foaf-project.org/)

Web link of note: Clever Catcus
(At http://www.clevercactus.com)