Comments on: Example for the power of open data… http://ivan-herman.name/2011/03/13/example-for-the-power-of-open-data%e2%80%a6/ Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Erickson http://ivan-herman.name/2011/03/13/example-for-the-power-of-open-data%e2%80%a6/#comment-6507 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:05:26 +0000 http://ivan-herman.name/?p=723#comment-6507 As Ivan notes, this is a common problem with WordPress.com – hosted blogs; most of the functionality needed by users for “interesting” posts including even the most basic linked data mashups, and which is available in self-hosted Wordpres, has been suppressed from the “.com” version. Another free “cloud”-hosted option for users is Blogger.com, but there users must dance around Google’s draconian “splog” (spam blog) detection and especially their stupifying process for having one’s blog restored after they unilaterally disable it.
I’m wondering if the new DropPages.com model, based on Dropbox — and which now supports RDF in several forms — might be the best approach to linked data-based blogging and mashing?

]]> By: Ivan Herman http://ivan-herman.name/2011/03/13/example-for-the-power-of-open-data%e2%80%a6/#comment-6506 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:45:21 +0000 http://ivan-herman.name/?p=723#comment-6506 Hi David,

Unfortunately (in this case) I do not run my own WordPress install; instead, I host my blog at WordPress.com. It would be great to have this (and some other) plugins installed by them but, well, that seems to be difficult. Moving to an own installation (beyond the fact that I would have to set up my own instance) would be quite a hassle… Thanks, Ivan.

]]> By: David Karger http://ivan-herman.name/2011/03/13/example-for-the-power-of-open-data%e2%80%a6/#comment-6505 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 03:36:24 +0000 http://ivan-herman.name/?p=723#comment-6505 Ivan, I notice you’re posting this using WordPress. It happens that we’ve built Datapress, an Exhibit WordPress plugin. Assuming you are running your own WordPress install, you could one-click install Datapress from the WordPress plugins site and then show the interactive data visualization in your own blog post, linking directly to the data feeding Jim’s example.

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