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"Form follows computation" captures a present phenomenon: Methodical overspill of programming is giving rise to a distinct aesthetic sensibility.

Meaning shifts as connotations change over time and reading becomes an act of writing if the connotations are purposefully reformulated. Accordingly, deducing meaning from the author's intention is an intentional fallacy [Wimsatt, Beardsley]. Followed to the extreme, context is everything.

The semantic web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a format that can be read and used by software agents, thus permitting them to find, share and integrate information more easily.[1] It derives from W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.

Contents [hide] 1 Purpose 2 Relationship to the Hypertext Web 2.1 Markup 2.2 Descriptive, and extensible 3 Skeptical reactions 3.1 Practical feasibility 3.2 An unrealized idea 3.3 Censorship and privacy 3.4 Doubling output formats 4 Components 4.1 XML, XML Schema, RDF, OWL, SPARQL 4.2 RDF - URI, XML, namespaces 5 Projects 5.1 FOAF 5.2 SIOC 5.3 SIMILE 5.4 Linking Open Data 6 Tools 6.1 Browsers 7 Services 7.1 Notification Services 7.2 Semantic Web Ping Service 7.3 Piggy Bank 8 See also 9 References 10 Notes 11 External links

is an evolving extension of the > World Wide Web > in which > web content > can be expressed not only in > natural language > , but also in a format that can be > read > and used by > software agents > , thus permitting them to find, share and > integrate > information more easily. > [1] > It derives from > W3C > director > Tim Berners-Lee 's vision of the Web as a universal medium for > data > , > information > , and > knowledge > exchange. >

As Lifehacker describes it, ReadBurner, "turn[s] Google Reader sharing into an action similar to bookmarking a page on Del.icio.us or voting for an article on Digg."