Comments on: FOAF can FOAD

By: Luci Sandor

Luci Sandor — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:13:34 +0000

Laugh it up….FOAF is about to be implemented on Roller. – http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/roller/roller/src/org/roller/presentation/velocity/FoafServlet.java

By: TX

TX — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:23:19 +0000

Aww… c’mon man, put the tags in for FOAD. I need something to keep me snickering at work. :-(

By: Mr Billl

Mr Billl — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 21:16:12 +0000

Wooo Hooo! If only FOAF had been around a while the whole mideast problem would have been solved or avoided. World peace is certain now. Hani, how in the hell can you say FOAF is dumb now?

Perhaps you should crown this man.

By: Cameron Purdy

Cameron Purdy — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:34:51 +0000

Now, now … there’s no reason to spew bile here.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:08:51 +0000

Blogging IS lame – have you read the bileblog?

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 07:04:08 +0000

“The point of that is…”
In talking about being socially dysfunctional etc you are entirely missing the point – this is about using machines to create and enhance channels of communication automatically. Augmenting human capabilities in this way could potentially help social disasters like the situation in the Middle East or the US electoral system.

Back in the immediate environment, an example of the point would be, for example, if I find someone’s blog interesting my client will be able to follow through their FOAF file to find other blogs that are likely to interest me. Or if I know in advance that a blog only contains negative write-ups, I may not want it in my blogroll.

Anyhow, whether you like it or not, this stuff has already come out of geekland, with automatic support for FOAF being provided in TypePad. Have you done the “blogging is lame” post yet?

By: Mr Billl

Mr Billl — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:52:04 +0000

Hehe. Why contribute to idiocy? No matter what brain power gets thrown at it it’s still idiocy.

Are is the typical liberal dogma of intentions matter, not results or substance?

By: Bill Kearney

Bill Kearney — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:58:19 +0000

Hey, why bother contributing when you can just make a negative rant, right?

Everything’s got it’s place. That you don’t see yourself using Foaf is obvious. Fortunately others do.

We all have our places to contribute. That you prefer they go about it planting, protesting, preaching and such is fine. I’m sure there’s a fair number of folks that think those ideas are rather daft.

Who’s wrong? Does it matter? No, not at all. But it’s all the fashion these days to say something stinks instead of helping out.

Here’s a thought, if the efforts you’re espousing now aren’t reaching people how is adding a new style, using online and XML tools, a problem? It’s not.

The more the merrier.

By: Bill K

Bill K — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:54:02 +0000

Hani, FOAF is an RDF thing, not an XML thing. I suppose that’s not an important distinction for your purposes here; but you really should have a look at RDF some time — it’s a delightful “solution desperately seeking a problem”, and I’m sure you could write a marvellous BileBlog entry about it.

I figure the primary purpose of FOAF is to get people to supply test data for RDF tools.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 02:53:24 +0000

Actually, this is a good use of XML… it is just a bit of data after all, and I assume there is a nice little DTD too (can’t be bothered to look into FOAF… sounds a bit naff).

I can think of far worse uses for XML… like trying to turn it into a scripting language (ie. Jelly, or dare I say it, Ant even), or other similar such absurdities…

By: Gabriel Mihalache

Gabriel Mihalache — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:32:03 +0000

I like you! You’re my friend Hani!
Oh… you also like Java too?!

By: malcolm edgar

malcolm edgar — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:54:54 +0000

Does anyone know of a FOAF plugin I can use in Eclipse.

By: lowem

lowem — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:28:52 +0000

So much for “privacy concerns”. Spammers are always welcome to spam-me@mailinator.com though .. :)

By: Fake Gerald Bauer

Fake Gerald Bauer — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:34:22 +0000

You Bastard Hani, I love FOAF. Thru it I’ll recruit the thousands of millions of the Java Cartel Process (TM) and Sun will have to listen to us ya know. Fuck you I won’t do what ya told Sun. No way… you gotta know your enemy and it’s Sun, you bastars, hhaaaahhh! haaaahhh! There’ll come a day when someone besides me will start posting on my foruns and we’ll kick Sun’s but! Allow me to provide a link to my pretty good looking website where you’ll find some insightful discussions between myself and I: http://viva.sourceforge.net

Btw… swing sux, Viva XUL!

By: Charles Miller

Charles Miller — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:27:03 +0000

Erk. Managed to hit post before I finished my paragraph. Never post before the first cup of tea. The last comment was supposed to end:

… But now you’ve gone and used up the joke.

By: Charles Miller

Charles Miller — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:24:52 +0000

Hey, look how popular Friendster is. People lap this sort of thing up.

I was thinking of coming up with a competing standard, and calling it FOAD.

By: the dude

the dude — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:10:11 +0000

>are you serious. people seriously
>do this kinda stuff? wow..

come on…

are you serious. people seriously read that kind of blogs? wow.

By: chiara

chiara — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:45:17 +0000

are you serious. people seriously do this kinda stuff? wow..

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:38:50 +0000

All this FOAF crap spun off from RDF stuff as far as I can determine, whose usefulness has yet to be demonstrated to me in any great depth. The two biggest uses of RDF data is the later version of RSS files (which to be honest were just shoehorned into RDF format as they ‘kind of did the same thing’) and FOAF. The only legitimate use of FOAF I can see would be perhaps in geneology circles, or perhaps in the behind the scenes storage for sites like friends reunited or something. As for geeks carrying their FOAF around as proof they have (at least imaginary) friends? Well I guess everntually it’ll make playing the 6 degrees of kevin bacon (http://www.geocities.com/theeac/bacon.html) easier…

By: terminus

terminus — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:38:09 +0000

Good one.