Bob Wielinga pointed me to Semantic blogging for bibliographies - Lessons learnt which appears to "combine" two of my research interests: the Semantic Web (SW) and blogging. Skimming through I'm not sure whether this work is an excuse for SW technology jumping on the blogging bandwagon, or a serious attempt to relate the two.
The Semantic Web "promises to make the web more useful by endowing metadata with machine processable semantics" (cited from the above link), whereas blogging is a social activity enabled by the web as it currently exists. Under the hood, the technologies merge at the syntax level: HTML, XML, RDF. The difference being that the technologies propagated by the Semantic Web community are actually in very active use by the blogging community and that the SW afficionados are struggling to prove their point in daily practice.
That was the theory. Now we dig into the syntax level for real. I stumbled on the following message:
Macro error: Poorly formed XML text, we were expecting a </BODY> tag
This message was addressed at a blogger around the corner to inform her of a missing HTML-tag and ended up in the archives. By introducing </BODY> (in the error message!) the archive became even more "Poorly formed" and one can only hope that the company that produced this goes broke fairly soon.
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