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Meeting Al Gore in Rome to talk about the Climate Crisis, and OpenSpime at the Current launch

Image by OpenDemocracy Al Gore is in Rome this Thursday for the launch of the Italian edition of Current, his television channel around user generated content, and I am among the dozen or two people invited to meet him for a couple of hours’ conversation. The questions we are going to ask him were themselves […]

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Is Freebase from Metaweb going to be what Cyc could have become? Shall the two merge?

Freebase merges the bottom up approach of the social web, with the hierarchies of directories, and the orderliness of traditional relational databases to help ‘organize the world’s knowledge’. (If that sounds familiar, it is because that is what Google is blindly about, with algorithms that are striving to see with barely formed eyes under heavy

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