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	<description>A blog on Topic Maps, Information Architecture, Usability and other aspects related to modern web development.</description>
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		<title>Daily WTF of Blog Spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#60;snip&#62;
trent reznor porn&#124;
&#60;/snip&#62;
(For those who don&#8217;t know, Trent Reznor is an industrial rock musician and I&#8217;m pretty sure he is no porn star).
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		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/random-ramblings/2008/daily-wtf-of-blog-spam/</link>
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		<title>Firefox Download Day &#8230; or not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As announced by the Mozilla team some time ago, June 17 is Firefox download day. Mozilla wants to set a &#8220;downloads per day&#8221; world record (with Firefox 3.0).
Because I&#8217;d signed up for a reminder, today I received the following e-mail:
Today you&#8217;ll make history with Firefox
Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/random-ramblings/2008/firefox-download-day-or-not-or-wait/</link>
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		<title>Semantics in HTML: What&#8217;s in a Heading?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During a workshop on accessibility and WAI yesterday, the issue of proper use of HTML headings came up.
Lots of sites fall short when it comes to using HTML headings (and other elements) properly, something that can affect accessibility, search engine ranking, as well as code maintenance [not to forget  future re-use on the grand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2008/semantics-in-html-whats-in-a-heading/</link>
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		<title>Spread Firefox - Download Day 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Whether or not Firefox is your favorite browser:
Set a Guinness World Record
Enjoy a Better Web
I&#8217;ve already tried the Firefox 3.0 beta (now a release candidate) for a while and can confirm that it is a faster and less consuming browser, so help rid the world of MSIE.
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		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2008/spread-firefox-download-day-2008/</link>
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		<title>Web Developers Don&#8217;t Know HTML</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article, IAllenkelhet.no (Norwegian) claims that a survey conducted last year revealed that while 90% of us expect web developers to have expert knowledge about HTML, a mere 35% of the developers actually do. Even fewer know much about WAI or WCAG.
Unfortunately, this is probably very close to the truth.
I believe that it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2008/web-developers-dont-know-html/</link>
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		<title>Monter.no - Bad Web Site of the Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you &#8212; or your bank, whichever fits best &#8212; own a house with a yard, you sometimes find yourself doing stuff in/to/with it. This year, we&#8217;ll for example put up a new fence, to keep our new puppy from running into the street.
Since we also need some other stuff for the house, I figured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/usability/2008/monter-no-bad-web-site-of-the-month/</link>
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		<title>Topic Maps - What Is It Good For</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My most recent attempt at Explaining Topic Maps.
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		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2008/topic-maps-what-is-it-good-for/</link>
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		<title>Making Sense of the Semantic Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The presentation Making Sense of the Semantic Web (by Nova Spivack) is a good introduction to the semantic web and includes some points that might be nice to have when explaining the semantic web and the importance of semantic technologies to newcomers.
It&#8217;s from The Next Web Conference (found via NRK Beta).
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		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/2008/making-sense-of-the-semantic-web/</link>
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		<title>Topic Maps 2008 Day 1 &#038; Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Better late than never&#8230;
Topic Maps 2008 - Day 1
Alex Wright of New York Times held the opening keynote of Topic Maps 2008. Wright talked about &#8220;Hierarchies, Networks, and the web that Wasn&#8217;t&#8220;.
His talk gave a quite interesting historic overview of how humans have tried to organize information in &#8220;topic maps-like&#8221; structures for, well, quite a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2008/topic-maps-2008-day-1-day-2/</link>
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		<title>Topic Maps 2008: Tutorial Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am currently at the 2nd International Topic Maps Conference, held in Oslo, Norway; Topic Maps 2008. Today was tutorial day.
This is what I got some insight into today (they are all bits and pieces, but I include the notes here for sharing).
Open Source Topic Map Portals
Arnar Lundesgaard, the lead developer of Zope Topic Maps, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2008/topic-maps-2008-tutorial-day/</link>
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