Philosophy and the Social Web

[Henry Story]

Hi,

At the first Web and Philosophy [1] conference that took place in Paris a little over
a week ago. I presented "Philosophy and the Social Web" which is online now in english.
The presentation comes with audio and notes, and is very detailed. It covers the social
networking problem, web architecture, REST, Reference and the Semantic Web, issues
in the Philosophy of Language and of Mind. These may seem a bit abstruse, but they
are really written from an engineers perspective who wishes to build the Social Web.

http://www.slideshare.net/bblfish/philosophy-and-the-social-web-5583083

For those who are interested in getting a view of how engineering and philosophy
touch, are interested in an overview of the semantic web or linked data, or yet another
view of the WebID protocol, this should be interesting.

Henry

[1] http://web-and-philosophy.org/


Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/

[Henry Story]

I have now put it up in ODP and PDF format under a CC licence here

http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/

Henry

Post by Henry Story
Hi,
At the first Web and Philosophy [1] conference that took place in Paris a little over
a week ago. I presented "Philosophy and the Social Web" which is online now in english.
The presentation comes with audio and notes, and is very detailed. It covers the social
networking problem, web architecture, REST, Reference and the Semantic Web, issues
in the Philosophy of Language and of Mind. These may seem a bit abstruse, but they
are really written from an engineers perspective who wishes to build the Social Web.
http://www.slideshare.net/bblfish/philosophy-and-the-social-web-5583083
For those who are interested in getting a view of how engineering and philosophy
touch, are interested in an overview of the semantic web or linked data, or yet another
view of the WebID protocol, this should be interesting.
Henry
[1] http://web-and-philosophy.org/
Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/

Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/

[Joe Corneli]

Hi Henry:

I read the slides with interest, they are wide-ranging and I learned
of some new (to me) thinkers. I'd be interested to know the story
behind these slides (in particular, any information about what got you
in touch with these various strands of thought?)

Joe

Post by Henry Story
I have now put it up in ODP and PDF format under a CC licence here
  http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/
Henry

Hi,
At the first Web and Philosophy [1] conference that took place in  Paris a little over
a week  ago. I presented  "Philosophy and the Social Web" which is online now in english.
The presentation comes with audio and notes, and is very detailed. It covers the social
networking problem, web architecture, REST,  Reference and the Semantic Web, issues
in the  Philosophy of Language and of Mind.  These may seem a bit abstruse, but they
are really written from an engineers perspective who wishes to build the Social Web.
http://www.slideshare.net/bblfish/philosophy-and-the-social-web-5583083
For those who are interested in getting a view of how engineering and philosophy
touch, are interested in an overview of the semantic web or linked data, or yet another
view of the WebID protocol, this should be interesting.
      Henry
[1] http://web-and-philosophy.org/
Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/

Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/

[Henry Story]

Post by Joe Corneli
I read the slides with interest, they are wide-ranging and I learned
of some new (to me) thinkers. I'd be interested to know the story
behind these slides (in particular, any information about what got you
in touch with these various strands of thought?)

As a kid I discovered computers on a DEC2020 at my fathers university.
I wanted to ask it to solve the rubix cube, so I was told that I needed
to program it. After a time playing dungeaons and dragons, I learnt Basic,
then Pascal, then Lisp which got me interested in AI. From AI I got
interested in Philosophy, where I did a B.A. and then started and MPhil.
After too much philosophy I came back to computing.

That is pretty much how I came to discover most of the philosophers cited.

At Sun Microsystems I was given enough freedom to do very much what interested
me. Starting from Atom, I then was looking for applications of the semantic
web. Doing this I tried to understand it, and what the misunderstandings
I had and others had along the way. Most of those were philosophical.
I blogged about that at http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish

And that video is pretty much the summary of those blogs.

Hope that helps,

Henry

Post by Joe Corneli
Joe

Post by Henry Story
I have now put it up in ODP and PDF format under a CC licence here
http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/
Henry

Post by Henry Story
Hi,
At the first Web and Philosophy [1] conference that took place in Paris a little over
a week ago. I presented "Philosophy and the Social Web" which is online now in english.
The presentation comes with audio and notes, and is very detailed. It covers the social
networking problem, web architecture, REST, Reference and the Semantic Web, issues
in the Philosophy of Language and of Mind. These may seem a bit abstruse, but they
are really written from an engineers perspective who wishes to build the Social Web.
http://www.slideshare.net/bblfish/philosophy-and-the-social-web-5583083
For those who are interested in getting a view of how engineering and philosophy
touch, are interested in an overview of the semantic web or linked data, or yet another
view of the WebID protocol, this should be interesting.
Henry
[1] http://web-and-philosophy.org/
Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/

Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/

Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/

[Nathan]

Post by Henry Story
As a kid I discovered computers on a DEC2020 at my fathers university.
I wanted to ask it to solve the rubix cube, so I was told that I needed
to program it.

did you ever try/succeed?

[Henry Story]

Btw, Tim Berners Lee just gave a short interview for PhiloWeb at the W3C
Technical Plenary in Lyon (France)
on the subject of the Web as Philosophical Engineering

http://dai.ly/arR0Dn

Post by Nathan

Post by Henry Story
As a kid I discovered computers on a DEC2020 at my fathers university.
I wanted to ask it to solve the rubix cube, so I was told that I needed
to program it.

did you ever try/succeed?

Nope. I ended up finding the answer to the Rubik Cube in Scientific
American, and then the problem did not seem quite so interesting anymore.
Still something fun to do...

Btw, I put up a version of the slides with detailed notes for further
reference at
http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/

Henry

[Melvin Carvalho]

Cool vid, thanks Henry

Any news from TPAC, any mention of WebID?

Post by Henry Story
Btw, Tim Berners Lee just gave a short interview for PhiloWeb at the W3C
Technical Plenary in Lyon (France)
on the subject of the Web as Philosophical Engineering
http://dai.ly/arR0Dn

Post by Nathan

Post by Henry Story
As a kid I discovered computers on a DEC2020 at my fathers university.
I wanted to ask it to solve the rubix cube, so I was told that I needed
to program it.

did you ever try/succeed?

Nope. I ended up finding the answer to the Rubik Cube in Scientific
American, and then the problem did not seem quite so interesting anymore.
Still something fun to do...
Btw, I put up a version of the slides with detailed notes for further
reference at
http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/
Henry

[Henry Story]

Post by Melvin Carvalho
Cool vid, thanks Henry
Any news from TPAC, any mention of WebID?

Tpac went very well. We're cooking something with respect to WebID.
Just now I am working on getting WebID into clerezza, so I can build
my blog engine there...

Post by Melvin Carvalho

Post by Henry Story
Btw, Tim Berners Lee just gave a short interview for PhiloWeb at the W3C
Technical Plenary in Lyon (France)
on the subject of the Web as Philosophical Engineering
http://dai.ly/arR0Dn

Post by Nathan

Post by Henry Story
As a kid I discovered computers on a DEC2020 at my fathers university.
I wanted to ask it to solve the rubix cube, so I was told that I needed
to program it.

did you ever try/succeed?

Nope. I ended up finding the answer to the Rubik Cube in Scientific
American, and then the problem did not seem quite so interesting anymore.
Still something fun to do...
Btw, I put up a version of the slides with detailed notes for further
reference at
http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/
Henry