"With User Labor, we propose an open data structure, User Labor Markup Language (ULML), to outline the metrics of user participation in social web services."

Google has monkeyed with putting hooks into the open-source database package MySQL for internal use, and now it has agreed to merge its improvements into the mainstream version of the software. Some speculate it's for integrating third-party machines into

Gareth Branwyn's discussion might be useful in explaining how the semantic web is different from Web 2.0.

Using FOAF-style metadataa for collaborative filtering and social network could make Joost the dominant online TV platform.

Tagging or adding keywords to files would really help me manage my documents, if OS X offered the ability to tag when I save. I'll have to look into Default Folder X.

"A December 2006 survey has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts." I do think the Pew project operationalizes categories way too broadly.

The folks from Bloglines and Ask.com are unilaterally introducing the "access:restriction" tag for RSS and Atom feeds. Their crawlers will not index feeds marked with this tag, providing a modicum of privacy for personal blogs.

This is a decent overview of RSS for newcomers. I wish they didn't use the word "syndication" so much, since the value to most end-uses is monitoring blogs, not re-using content.

"It is easier, cheaper and more accurate to capture metadata upstream, than to reverse engineer it downstream."

If a media studies-type person asked for an intro to Folksonomy, I think I would point them to this article.