Today, Judith Rosen has created a blog entry as a means of experimentally determining an approach to broadening the exposure to and understanding of her father's work.

This blog entry is just a first step in a long road aimed in the direction of establishing a Topic Map based facilitation for doing science. We will likely establith an independent portal for the topic map which will grow out of the field called Rosennean Complexity. That topic map will merge with other topic maps in fields such as category theory, causality, modeling, entailment, and more, as a federation of topics in doing science.  #

At the site of the Shared Meaning Design Framework (SMDF) group, a paper was recently posted with the title Shared Meaning Requirements Elicitation: Towards Intelligent, Evolving, Semiotic Architectures for Stakeholder E-mediated Communication. Find the paper by navigating to the SMDF site, click on Research and scroll down to the ICCS 2003 paper link.

I made a small contribution to the paper and the paper is part of the ICCS 2003 conference.

I first came to grips with ICCS, C.S. Peirce, and the semiotic, following owning books by John F. Sowa, when I met Mary Keeler after an introduction to her by Douglas Engelbart. What a rich and profound event, spending time with Mary and organizing my thoughts around those of Peirce. Mary eventually introduced me to the other co-authors of this paper and the rest is history.

For me, the paper represents a kind of talking point or binding point (that's topic map speak) which tries to tie together several threads. The threads in question all orbit around a central Peircian question: what is the right tool for the right job? Time will tell whether answers to that question turn up.  #

Aleksander Slominski and I are now developing a project we call StoryBlog based on Alek's original microBlog. The project will land blogs a new home at http://blogs.nexist.org/ (which doesn't exist yet -- watch this space). The project is under development at java.net. The portal home at blogs.nexist.org will include a topic map built from syndications of StoryBlogs and other blogs which syndicate in such a way that topics can be detected in the RSS feeds.  #

Aleksander Slominski sent me this URL, which is Tim Bray's blog entry about Sam Ruby's Conceptual Model of a Log Entry. There is also a link to Sam Ruby's RoadMap Wiki.

I completely support this process. At the same time, I hope that it will be possible to incorporate that information in the model which will facilitate construction of topic maps from Weblog syndications. I have discussed an approach to building topic maps from RSS feeds here.  #