I've been writing about additional weblog payloads for two years. I suggested the calling it the "Semantic Weblog" and got a response I didn't expect (a chance to learn!) KenMacLeod posted today 

"Semantic" automatically ties it to the "Semantic Web" and RDF, which can distract the conversation from good, real use cases to debating an implementation.

Really? Is this true for all the developer communities or just for the RSS/RDF communities?

Wasn't the Semantic Web was an implementation-neutral idea? Or has the meaning substantially changed?

More:

1. Edd Dumbill wrote in 2000 that the ideas of Semantic Web are implementation neutral.
2. Tim Berners-Lee's The Semantic Web (Scientific American, May 2001) cited XML for interop and RDF for meaning. 
3. W3C's Semantic Web project is RDF-specific indeed.

Harry Potter sneaks a peak at Atlas Shrugged and becomes an Ayn Rand objectivist. Why save muggles when they should be saving themselves? Why not ruthlessly exploit Apple's leaked G5 specs? Harry now hates lawyer but doesn't hesitate to reach for the top by suing the New York Daily News. Is there a backlash in the works? Could the gay pride parade have trampled waiting bookbuyers, causing the first known Harry Potter death? Or was it the stampede for nude portraits of Hermione with the newly slim Radley Balko? These tragedies can be prevented when stores are designed for city comforts or for phantoms like Gerard Butler.

Harry is no match for 50 Cent when it comes to Kazaa downloads. They even beat out Metallica like The Hulk stepping on Beyonce Knowles. But what about politics?

Yahoo!'s Top 10 Searches 1. Harry Potter 1. Benton Harbor 2. 50 Cent 2. Paradise Hotel 3. Kazaa 3. Oprah'S Book Club 4. Metallica 4. Ghb 5. The Hulk 5. Earth Science Regents 6. Beyonce Knowles 6. Fame 7. David Beckham 7. Kelly Ripa 8. Eminem 8. Minnesota State Fair 9. Britney Spears 9. Viking Grill 10. Jennifer Lopez 10. New York Daily News

David Beckham is a Brit, so no voting there (except maybe in Spain?). Which candidate is courting the endorsement of Eminem, Britney Spears, Kelly Ripa, and Jennifer Lopez, following them through the riots of Benton Harbor, onto the sets of Paradise Hotel? Which candidates have written books worthy of Oprah's Book Club? Which are taking a stand against students using GHB and for their passing the Earth Science Regents' exams? Whose campaign staff is booking them as a talent judge on Fame, a pie tastng judge at the Minnesota State Fair, a spokesman in a Viking Grill infomercial? Your guess is better than mine.   

[aka propagandart]

The conclusion of Halley Suitt's Read Me, an impassioned and insightful social comment:

Like women in business, weblogs in business are the next big thing, and the two will work in concert to make the workplace radically new and transparent. The Net brought transparency to the travel business, to the financial business, to many other transaction based businesses. As for weblogs, the most innovative initiatives will not be in the arena of weblogging technology, but rather the innovation demanded of business as business grows more transparent, more open to the stories of all people who need to tell their stories and need to bring business back into reality and a place of truth.

It'll take ten minutes to read the whole thing. Make the time for one of this generation's leading metabloggers.

[aka klogs]