Semantic Web Utility

A short while ago I wrote an article about the web as an application suite. Jon Udell recently wrote an article about Interactive Microcontent, in this article he discusses working with fragments of a document. One of the examples he gives is of calendar data embedded into a document, his example has many similarities to an example I gave in my article. Clay Shirky’s semantic web essay andTim Bray’s semi-rebuttal of it has recently raised the profile of the semantic web topic again. I think that coming up with real and concrete applications for embedded meta data will help to provide the impetus the semantic web (in whatever form it takes) needs to become more than just an academic exercise.