I was looking into setting up an RSS feed for InstaContent the other day when I started wondering: Why can I only use RDF for syndication? I want to make the whole thing machine-readable! So I redefined blog from HTML microcontent to annotations on sites, which, although more constrained, allows me to mark it up using existing RDF ontologies.

Some people complain that RDF is human-unreadable, but looking at my pretty markup, I could see that just wasn't true, so I designed the site to demonstrate that by making the markup visible. (If I were an artist, I'd say I was exploring the intersection of human and machine communication or something like that.) The site is elegantly created by a transform from RDF in the browser by a XSL Template, although at some point in the future I'm going to have to figure out how to do it on the server-side for browsers that don't support XSLT.

Finally, I'm now using Blogger instead of Drupal because I was always struggling with over-powered Drupal and I think Blogger's dumb-server architecture is brilliant. It also helps that Blogger veterans were recently made Gmail β-testers — seems like a good idea to be on SkyNet's good side. :)