Did you know that the default template for the Movable Type weblog publishing software adds metadata in commented-out RDF/XML to permalink pages? (By “permalink pages,” I mean the pages that store permanent versions of each weblog entry, as opposed to the versions on the main index page, which are only there for a few weeks.) For example, this weblog is one I picked at random after doing a Google search for “Movable Type”; doing a View Source on it will show the…
Lee Feigenbaum’s recent posting Using RDF on the Web: A Survey is worth reading for anyone considering any kind of RDF development work, web-based or otherwise. At first, I thought that he was limiting himself by requiring that applications and tools be capable of both reading and writing RDF data, but after reading his list, I’m glad he did. I also found the wide choice of JSON-related systems to be interesting—they could lead the way to something that definitively answers the…
2007-01-19 update: It looks like Bitpass is going under. While there’s no mention of it on their website, I just got email from them saying that “due to circumstances beyond our control, we are discontinuing our operations.” If anyone knows of a comparable service or a service with different ideas about enabling small vendors to sell content on the internet, please let me know.
