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Reuters has opened up a web application to streamline the process of generating metadata around content. From their web site at http://opencalais.mashery.com/Overview

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DrupalCon, was very successful for the SemanticWeb.

I was very surprised by the attendance of my talk - around 70 people - and the group meeting afterward had some very knowledgeable, motivated, and interesting people. I am really looking forward to fleshing out things here.

http://www.iptc.org/NAR/

Greetings, fellow standards junkies:

I stumbled across the site above while looking to see what was being done with aggregation these days. For anyone who's ever given any thought to how much IE6 is to CSS like RSS 2.0 is to aggregation, it might make sense if I admitted I originally bookmarked the site above for future review and subconsciously repressed the memory as a hoax intended to torment me.

If it was some big deal, why wasn't anybody talking about it? Little did I know...

To be completely serious, though, I've been thinking a lot these past couple of months about what could be done to make Drupal more attractive to publishers looking to convert their operations to the web or folks looking to create web-based publications, and there's been growing interest in the subject. Given the spike in growth seen in the community following the DeanSpace/CivicSpace project and how popular Drupal has become with non-profits and the like, I've been thinking a complimentary project to the ecommerce suite aimed at publishers might both increase Drupal's popularity as a commercial platform and drive new business to contractors.