I am terribly excited at the rate of development of the RSS/weblog related technologies out there in the web. However, one of the things that I had problem with is how to categorise and collectively call this set of technologies. (To call it 'RSS/weblog related set of technologies' is a mouth full and does not give the technology justice.

Through some readings, I came across the term Semantic Web, and it does seem to shed some light on the path that RSS/weblog related techonlogies are all to solve the problem of make information machine-understandable.

Hey, wait a minutes, doesn't machine-understandble information sound suspiciously like Web Services, the buzz word of the last few years? Yes it does. In fact, my view is that Semantic Web technologies (now I can call them 'Semantic Web Technologies' instead of 'RSS/weblog related technologies') will lead the adoption of web services with its ability to ease and assist in Content Consumption.

Just like the HTML-brochureware-to-transaction-heavy-sites kind of evolution, I believe that web services evloution will follow the same path, gaining popularity and wide usage first based on content, then follow suite with transaction capabilities.