Auto-FOAF from Weblog Comments

For the past week or so I’ve had a website field in the discussion section of my weblog. Today I modified my FOAF file to automatically grab the people who’ve filled this field in, and incorporate them in dynamically. The result is that my foafnaut looks like this now:

The next step is to do some FOAF autodiscovery on each link to allow me to add a FOAF seeAlso section where appropriate.

Comments from readers...

kenThank you for being a friend.

Peter, what are your thoughts about setting up a web site that brings together the skills of web page designers, tech help, etc. in a virtual community that provides these services to non-profits like the food bank, public library, environmental groups or whatever.

An online professional services club, like the shriners, but instead for bit-masons.

The first project of course is to set up and design the professional services web site, and fund the web-hosting, and set up some kind of executive trio or some form of self governance. I'll do all this. Your influence inspiring pro-techies to contribute would be essential, and your graph indicates you are well connected!

I picture a private blog type journal for each client to make requests or ask questions. Then, volunteer professionals like us could attend the client blogs.

What do you think?

PERMALINK POSTED AUG 1, 2003 AT 11:32 AST BY ken  ()

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