going to burningman-who will be there?

Ok, who from the Semantic Web guys and girls is going to Burning Man this year?

I am going, and we are blogging here about that:

• http://burningman2006.blogspot.com/

I tried to find you guys by using search engines, but I am not witty enought to get the right results, so blogging and asking this question is probably ok for today.

Here is the story how I tried to find you:

This time I swoogled the semantic web to find out who lives near SFO, which indicates that they may go to burningman.

My first try was to go to swoogle.com, a very interesting website where you may lose hours during your office time. Then I found the search engine at swoogle.umbc.edu.

I tried to search for:

• ns:foaf SFO but this broke. Internal Server Error in /work/swoogle/www/swoogle/3.1/components/com_frontpage/writer.search.php on line 61
• perhaps not search documents, search ontologies instead. SFO – no results
• just entering francisco returned too much.
• refining to ns:foaf francisco, zero.
• at this point, I registered for an account at swoogle, perhaps then more. Hm, no.

Ok, perhaps the search syntax is wrong. Lets go to Intellidimension’s Semantic Web Search engine at www.semanticwebsearch.com.

• ah, they have a combobox where you can select foaf files. Lets do that and search for SFO.. Hm, one result, a substring match. woah, they do substrings.
• searching for “francisco” I get one foaf file seven times. It is a livejournal user, joey-francisco.
• ok, now fumbling around with the airport thingy, I tweaked it so that I can finally find Dan Brickley, as an example. this search for a foaf:person with nearest airport EDDG.
• btw: it also works when you search for “any resource”: search
• ok, now my SFO search. brought nothing.

ok, change of tactics: shoot straight at the target of burning man.

• semanticwebsearch for burningman. Brings some RSS feeds. Ok, that are bloggers. I need semweb bloggers though.
• perhaps some foaf person said something in interests or so? search, nothing.
• with “burning man” we get two livejournal users.

ok, lets see what the market leader does.

• google for burningman semantic web. 50.000 results. My own blog post on clothes is far on top, first page.
• hm, groucho marx said not to join a club that would accept you. So that high ranked blog entry of myself, hm. Ok, first ranked was a #rdfig scratchpad entry. But the nym user on #rdfig only pointed to a now dead website.
• I limit to 2006. limit to 2006, to get this years burners. My blog post again.
• Looking at the results, I find the blog of Peter Brown at http://www.blogsicle.net/

ok, so I didn’t hear of these guys before and I see that this use case is interesting. Anyway:

Ok, who from the Semantic Web guys and girls is going to Burning Man this year?