20151210/Solid
On getting off the Facebooks.
I think I found my way off, though it's not quite ready for prime time yet.
I first checked it out a while ago, it's really been taking shape as an amazing way forward.
Initiated by Tim Berners-Lee, the person who created the Web (but failed to immediately move it to the more ambitious Semantic Web), it is a decentralized, knowledge and reusable data system that elevates the Web, so the content we access is strongly typed rather than being whatever any site decides to put together. Its decentralized, peer to peer focus means you can spread your content across the web, including on your own private "pods," with very fine grained access control. It's amazing for personal and shared data curation, and the antithesis of blobs of captive data on sites like Facebook. McLuhan said "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." The web had us thinking in rich content pages and links, but then a failure of follow through pushed things back to a 1980s version of communication based on a few big sites, TV style presentations, and coarsely connected systems barely evolved from 1980s dial-up bulletin boards. The evolution the Semantic Web can bring about will be shocking and powerful in detail, as information gathering and curation can become more focused for everyone, more like a fun, easy to use academic's toolkit than blasting blobs of text that only enable filter bubbles, trolling, and gross interpretation by algorithms, that's prevalent today.
Since the Semantic Web was first proposed, there have been a lot of attempts to make this mainstream, but this time the push is social, usable, practical.
I'm amazed at the people that are involved, definitely some of the smartest people from diverse projects in this space.
I'd expect to start using this in the next few months.
Toronto 43° 39' 12.53" N, 79° 23' 2.16" W Arts Dance Person Asian Origin
Lata Pada is a Canadian choreographer and Bharatanatyam dancer of Indian descent. Pada is the Founder and Artistic Director of Sampradaya Dance Creations, a dance Company that performs South Asian dance. She is also the Founder and Director of Sampradaya Dance Academy, a leading professional dance training institution that is the only South Asian dance school in North America affiliated with the prestigious, UK-based Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing.Pada founded the dance company in 1990 because she wanted to showcase Bharatantyam dance as an art form throughout the world.
Pada, who attended Elphinstone College in Mumbai, trained under the gurus Kalaimamani Kalyanasundaram and Padmabhushan Kalanidhi Narayanan.Pada lives in Mississauga, near Toronto. Pada married geologist Vishnu Pada when she was 17 years old.
In 1985 Lata Pada and her family decided to take an extended vacation to India. On June 23 of that year Vishnu Pada and daughters Arti and Brinda died in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. Lata Pada was not aboard since she left on an earlier date to tour India for Bharatanatyam recitals in Bangalore and across India; Lata was in Mumbai rehearsing for her tour, while her husband and daughters stayed behind in Sudbury, Ontario because Brinda was graduating from high school; afterwards the three flew on Air India 182. Lata Pada became a spokesperson for the families of the victims. After the crash she created the dance piece "Revealed By Fire" in remembrance of the incident. Pada received a master's degree in fine arts from York University in 1997.
Pada married Hari Venkatacharya in September, 2000. Venkatacharya is an entrepreneur and was Managing Director of Nytric Business Partners and is the Immediate Past President of TiE Toronto. He also serves on the Boards of the Ontario Science Centre and Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. They both met while founding the South Asian advisory committee at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1995, where they raised over $3 million Canadian dollars for Canada's first permanent South Asian Gallery.
In December 2008, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for her contributions to the development of Bharatanatyam as a choreographer, teacher, dancer and artistic director, as well as for her commitment and support of the Indian community in Canada. Lata was also recently appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Faculty of Dance, York University, Toronto.
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