Good news: my paper “Trust-aware Collaborative Filtering for Recommender Systems” got accepted for Coopis2004.
Bad news: the conference is hyper-expensive.
So I’m looking for hyper-cheap (possibly free) hospitality in Larnaca, Cyprus, from 25 Oct to 29 Oct 2004. I checked on couchsurfing (a site where people offers ospitality in their houses and a super-cool YASN [yes, you can express your friends list]) but I found none in Cyprus.
If we take for true the six degree of separation theorem, I should be connected to everyone in Cyprus by only six degrees of separation. So I guess there should be at least some cypriots in my friends of friends set, now i only need to find one of the connecting friends. So if you know someone in Cyprus, please become my friend and close the circuit (and don’t forget to write down the path from me to the cypriot host in the comments below). Thanks.
Yearly Archives: 2004
Manifesto for the Reputation Society
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I trust enough Hassan Masum that I’m recommending his new article Manifesto for the Reputation Society (written with Yi–Cheng Zhang) even if I didn’t have time yet to read it. It is published on FirstMonday, a very interesting online journal. I’m recommending it also because it cites a paper of mine, so I guess I get back some reputation as well ;-)
Too bad the content on FirstMonday is not released under a Creative Commons licence.
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FOAF Camp in The Netherlands
There will be a FOAF Camp (19-20 August 2004, Campus UTwente, The Netherlands).
In short, Two days of talking, hacking, socializing and making FOAF better. and more importantly W’re doing this for fun, not for profit, on a pure cost recovery basis – so bear with us as we sort out some details.
Together with 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web (FOAF’2004), it will be a ubercool FOAF summer here in Europe!
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Cory Doctorow’s Microsoft Research DRM talk … in Italiano e in MP3
Daypop today tells us that the most linked URL is Cory Doctorow’s Microsoft Research DRM talk. Cory released it under a Creative Commons licence and people start doing creative actions with the content. In fact, you find an MP3 version and even an Italian translation on a Wiki (by Luca Lizzeri)! Fantastic!
A must read (or a must hear?!? I cannot wait to listen Cory uttering the “arrr”s you find in the text ;-)
Call For Papers: 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web
1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web (FOAF’2004)
*1-2 September 2004, Galway, Ireland*,
sponsored by SWAD-Europe and DERI
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway/
Many of the interesting conferences about these topics happen in USA. So, if you are in Europe, you cannot miss this one!
In the committee there are many people that I learn to know by email or by reading their blogs but I have never met. I hope to meet them physically in Galway.
(found via rdfweb mailing list)
This call for papers also appears in the Call for papers topicexchange channel and in Trust-related-conferences wiki page
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GoogleBomb to stop genocide in Sudan
Jim is trying to organize a google-bombing of Sudan by getting folks to blog the word “Sudan” and link it to Passion of the Present, a site he’s helping organize to call attention to the plight of the residents of Darfur. Unlike John Kerry and waffles, or George W Bush and “miserable failure”, this google-bombing has a point – the Khartoum government has proven very sensitive to public pressure. If Google tells them the world is paying attention to Darfur, perhaps they’ll ease more of the restrictions making it difficult for food and aid to reach refugees in Darfur.(via Ethan)
I also want to add this attempt in the definition of googlebomb in Wikipedia that has probably more pagerank than my site, but wikipedia is temporariy locked for maintenance. TODO: remember to edit Wikipedia.
For Italian people, there is an Italian site about the situation in Sudan (no, I´m not affiliated with it).
You can also check who is participating with Technorati.
Workshops Committees
I’m writing a paper for Coopis2004 and have not too much time to blog. By the way, I’m in committee of 2 very interesting workshops:
– Trust, Security, and Reputation on the Semantic Web (held at the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) from 7-11 November, 2004 in Hiroshima, Japan.)
Deadline for Submissions: July 16, 2004
– Trust, Recommendations, Evidence and other Collaboration Know-how (TRECK) Track (track of the 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 13 -17, 2005)
Deadline for Submissions: Sept. 3, 2004
You are of course invited to submit challenging and innovative ideas!
I guess I should also update our wiki list of trust related conferences. In the meantime I ping http://topicexchange.com/t/calls_for_papers/
KnoBot
KnoBot [UPDATE: the link is often broken. the knobot page on Sourceforge is always up (thanks Zbigniew)]- An agent for decentralised knowledge exchange :KnoBot combines semantic web technology with a P2P design to build a trust based decentralised system for information selection and discovery.
I should check it better but looks a lot like what I want to do for my PhD.
On KnoBot news I found a similar and interesting project: the Matrix Public Network project.
Both ot the project have running code, so we can try them out.
The passion of the present: more about genocide in Sudan
In a comment, Jim Moore (author of The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head) invites to link to The Passion of the Present in order to “help mobilize people to help stop the genocide in Sudan”.
Free Movable Type blog hosting
If you want to use Movable Type for your blog but don’t have an always connected computer or simply don’t want to install it, you can use Weblogs.us, free MT blog hosting.
I’m using MT for this blog but, if I had to choose the blog server today, I would probably choose WordPress (read a short review). Note that WordPress is free software while MT is not.