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Ken MacLeod: The RDF model along with the logic and equivalency languages, like OWL (nee DAML+OIL), altogether referred to as "the Semantic Web", is the current W3C effort to address that problem.

Count the number of occurrences of the word "Ontology" in this.  For that matter, count the number of references to RDF, and look carefully at the context in which each is made.  Then search Shirky's latest opus for the phrase "Hail Mary" and read the surrounding paragraphs.  (Note to Clay: please make better use of id and/or name attributes in future essays).

I gather that Rothenberg's vision of a semantic web is not much different from Clay's and Kimbro's.  In fact take a specific look at this quote from Rothenberg:

weblogs contain not just hyperlinks, but hyperlinks that are typically surrounded by an amount of referential data about the destination of the link.  Thus, they are not just hyperlinking to a resource; they are making assertions about that resource.

In XML terms, this is mixed content.  Links are unquestionably the greatest source for semantic data within weblogs.  But what does RSS 1.0 (an application of RDF) do with that data?  The answer is that this data, if present at all in the feed, is passed through the equivalent of folding, spindling, and mutilating, and the results are placed in the aptly named content:encoded element.

And in the process made that data completely invisible to logic and equivalency languages, like OWL (nee DAML+OIL).